Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: Fixes for ide-disk.c | Date | Sat, 5 Apr 2003 10:27:55 +0100 (BST) |
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> People using swsusp under 2.4 found that everything worked > fine if they rebooted after writing the image, but powering down at the > end of writing the image caused corruption. I got the additional check > from the source for hdparm, which only does the new check to determine > if a drive has a writeback cache.
Did we ever establish what the best way to ensure that the write cache is flushed, is? An explicit cache flush and spin down are both necessary, but I had problems with drives spinning back up when we did the spindown first.
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