Re: PATCH: Shutdown IDE before powering off.

[James H. Cloos Jr.]

>>>>> "Nigel" == Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Nigel> Actually, we wouldn't want to call sync
Nigel> anyway for reasons I won't go into here

Sorry for the confusion; I didn't mean call sync so much as flush
synchronously (ie wait for the drive to ack) thrice before the reboot.

-JimC

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