Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6 IDE 19 | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:50:52 -0800 (PST) | From | (Barry K. Nathan) |
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> > For gods sake: > > > > 1. How is Win2000 going to work then? > > Because its standards compliant. It wasnt written by a half clued wannabe > who has never read the manuals and can do nothing but call people who have > a "liar". And a standards compliant implementation does all the right power > management commands. Win 98 didnt quite get it right and you'll find one > of the updates addresses IDE problems. Ironically fixing the same flush > cache and shut down politely problem you plan to break in Linux
Windows 2000 doesn't even get this right 100% of the time either: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q281672 (I've seen this bug corrupt data in real life -- it's not just theoretical. The really unfortunate part is that Win2K also forces the write cache on, even if you try to turn it off, due to another bug.)
AFAIK a fix for this is planned for Win2K Service Pack 3, and WinXP works properly (in this regard anyway) out-of-the-box.
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