On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 14:49 +0530, Amit Sahrawat wrote: > The patch did not work, although it did get pass the earlier condition > which I mentioned- but still Write Cache is not taken into account – > seems mode sensing in sd_read_cache_type() does not send proper > request to the device – or does not read in proper bytes for this(as > per hdparm command analysis): > > Logs After Connecting: > scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access Seagate Portable 0130 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte logical blocks: (250 GB/232 GiB) > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page present This line means that a request for page 0x0 didn't turn up the caching mode page in the list of supported pages. What does sg_inq --page=0x0 /dev/sda show? James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html