On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:03:27AM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > > Not exaclty. It is a 48Gig drive in a dell inspiron 8000. I think it is
> > > > IBM but the logs do not show a brandname. I can try open up the case tonight
> > > > if you want to know for sure?
> > >
> > > It's an IBM IC25T048ATDA05-0 to be precise.
> >
> > Thanks. It seems IBM laptop drives are the ones that specifically need this
> > fix. That ties in with the windows 98 reports/microsoft fixes.
>
> I'm using IBM 240Z with IBM-DJSA-220 (20GB, 9.5mm thickness) with
> 2.4.15-pre7 and it does not need any fixes. Disk clean after shutdown.
Does it have write caching enabled? check with hdparm ( I think you need one of
the latest hdparm versions...)
-Marcel
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