Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.6 IDE shutdown problems.

From: Tom Vier
Date: Sun May 23 2004 - 21:43:03 EST


On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 06:25:51PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I would think that if the drive didn't properly flush cache on shutdown
> that it might cause corruption. Feel free to tell me no drive would
> bahave like that ;-)

why not add a one or two second delay before? i doubt any drive holds its
writeback that long.

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