On Jun 11, Perry E. Metzger wrote
> That statement makes me nervous.
> 
> Do we, or don't we, know how to flush an IDE drive's cache?
> 

The only thing we can find in the specs about cache flush is the "flush
cache" command, which is optional and ata-4 only.
So in the general case, we don't know how to flush the cache.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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