> Not that simple. Most disks don't spin up on SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE if its > cache is clean. Sadly some disks actually spin up when it receives spin > down command while spun down to immediately spin down again, so we would > be fixing problem for some number of disks while breaking others. :-( Snoop the last command sent to the drive, that tells you if you can skip the cache flush ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
