In article <1032010655.12892.8.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> How about this: The FLUSH CACHE command has only recently become a
>> mandatory command for non-PACKET devices, so there may be drives that do
>> implement a write cache, but do NOT implement the FLUSH CACHE -- and
>> still adhere to some older edition of the ATA standard.
>
>Worse than that. There are drives that did implement it - as a no-op.
>They didn't even say "Umm sorry no can do"
Putting the drive in stand-by mode has the side effect of flushing
the cache. So before poweroff, send the FLUSH CACHE command,
then send the standby command, hope that one of them works ..
I put put-the-drive-in-standby-mode stuff in halt.c of sysvinit
after several reports of fs corruption at poweroff and it seems
to have fixed the problems for the people who reported them.
Mike.
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