Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:04:24 +0100 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6 IDE 19 |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>And apparently we see that there is nothing special about them... Just don't >>enable the write cache and all should be well with a timeout of 30 seconds. >> > > Quite a few controllers enable the write cache in their bootstrap before > the OS gets involved. > Just "don't enable" is not an option.
Right. But that can be already handled by the hdparm utility at boot. Please note as well that the controller we are talking about is basically the CardBus PCI-ISA bridge kind of ;-). It doesn't do much setup. (Fingers corssed becouse I didn't check the cs code thus far.)
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