Re: [patch 2.6] don't put IDE disks in standby mode on halt on Alpha

[Ivan Kokshaysky]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 06:26:33PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> how do you flush the disks' writecache then? Halting the disk seems to
> be the only reliable way to do so.

Isn't ide_cacheflush_p() supposed to do that on modern drives?

Ivan.
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