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    SubjectRe: ide errors in 7-rc1-mm1 and later
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    /me just thinks loudly

    'linear range' FLUSH CACHE seems so easy to implement that I always wondered
    why FLUSH CACHE command doesn't make any use of LBA address and number
    of sectors.

    On Sunday 06 of June 2004 18:18, Eric D. Mudama wrote:
    > On Sat, Jun 5 at 11:24, Jens Axboe wrote:
    > >I did suggest this a few years ago. The comment I received was that
    > >they didn't take suggestions from OS people, if I didn't have a drive
    > >implementation to go with the proposal they couldn't use it for
    > >anything. Which was interesting, since that seemed to suggest that t13
    > >had little steering in ata development, they mainly put into the ATA
    > >specs what drive manufacturers shoved at them. Of course this isn't 100%
    > >true, but it does explain a lot of things :-)
    >
    > If it helps, I'm listening.
    >
    > Suggestions/proposals for new features etc, if they're a good idea, I
    > can help push inside via our SATA/T13 reps. Note that as per all
    > long-lived specs with multiple revisions, changing the behavior of an
    > existing feature to something incompatible is virtually never
    > feasable.
    >
    > >Andre even tried getting FUA to do what we needed, no such luck there.
    > >Some other bigger OS wanted it differently, the rest is history.
    >
    > Lo siento, I wasn't around when that occurred. Of course, that other
    > bigger OS has a very large installed base, and selling a drive that
    > breaks it is corporate suicide.

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