On Thu, 11 Jun 1998 22:07:14 +0200 (CEST) 
 Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> wrote:

 > You should be able to send SCSI WRITE commands with the immediate bit
 > (I think it's called) set. This should force a write all the way to the
 > platter and only then reporting I/O complete back to the host.
 > 
 > You need the SCSI specs to get the details on this.

...um, actually, the Immed bit usually means "return status immediately,
regardless of whether or not the task has been completed".  For example,
Immed on SYNCHRNOIZE CACHE causes the sync operation to happen
asyncronously :-)

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