Re: Disk write cache (Was: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability)

[Eric D. Mudama]

On 5/15/05, Mark Lord <lkml@xxxxxx> wrote:
> There's your clue.  The drive LEDs normally reflect activity
> over the ATA bus (the cable!). If they're not on, then the drive
> isn't receiving data/commands from the host.

Mark is correct, activity indicators are associated with bus activity,
not internal drive activity.
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