RE: RAID controller safety

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2006-01-06 at 09:33 -0500, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> The dpt_i2o driver (which is a scsi driver) accepts the
> SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE scsi command and passes it off to the firmware. The
> firmware respects this and flushes all the outstanding (cached)
> commands. This is true in all (kernel.org or Adaptec latest) versions.

In which case it should be fine and correct with the generic i2o_scsi as
well as that will pass through SCSI command requests directly. i2o_block
doesn't know about converting any incoming cache flush to an i2o command
block so might not.

Alan

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