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Re: Write Cache Failed Flushing. Ummmm

From: Alan Cox <alan redhat com>
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list redhat com>
Subject: Re: Write Cache Failed Flushing. Ummmm
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 05:44:02 -0400

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 09:46:56AM -0400, Dwaine Garden wrote:
> It is a maxtor drive.   What in the maxtor drive is causing the problem 
> that other drives do not have?
> Different cache timings?

Certain maxtor drives report that they support LBA48 cache flush, but also
report they don't support LBA48 (large disk). In that situation Linux tried
to issue an LBA48 cache flush and the drive rejected it. It is fixed upstream

References:
- Write Cache Failed Flushing. Ummmm
  - From: Dwaine Garden
- Re: Write Cache Failed Flushing. Ummmm
  - From: Alan Cox
- Re: Write Cache Failed Flushing. Ummmm
  - From: Dwaine Garden

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