Re: rc6 keeps hanging and blanking displays where rc4-mm1 works

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2005-08-12 at 10:34 -0700, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> >Unless you are using data=journal and have turned write cache off on
> >your IDE drives that is expected. 
> 
> I seem to recall reading that after a power failure a modern IDE drive gets
> enough power from the motor spinning down to always be able to write the cache
> to the media.

Urban legend.

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