Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:02:50 -0500 | From | "Daniel Phillips" <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] document ext3 requirements (was Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck) |
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On Jan 16, 2008 2:06 PM, Bryan Henderson <hbryan@us.ibm.com> wrote: > >The "disk motor as a generator" tale may not be purely folklore. When > >an IDE drive is not in writeback mode, something special needs to done > >to ensure the last write to media is not a scribble. > > No it doesn't. The last write _is_ a scribble.
Have you observed that in the wild? A former engineer of a disk drive company suggests to me that the capacitors on the board provide enough power to complete the last sector, even to park the head.
Regards,
Daniel
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