Re: Freeze after disabling write cache with hdparm -W0 /dev/sda

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Simon Farnsworth wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Simon Farnsworth wrote:
>>> Just a thought; is it possible to trigger libata EH from userspace? If
>>> so, we could write a small utility to disable write cache, then force EH
>>> to detect the change.
>> That's automatically done.  libata snoops cache on/off and triggers
>> revalidation but you can request manual rescan by echoing "- - -" to
>> /sys/class/scsi_host/hostX/scan.
>>
> Would it be worth changing our code to do "hdparm -W1 /dev/sda && hdparm
> -W0 /dev/sda", or would this not show anything. The lack of revalidation
> on some drives is what's worrying me a little here.

Revalidation happens after cache property is changed successfully.  What
happens if you request manual rescan while the drive is not repsponding?

-- 
tejun
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