On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:04:28AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Rather than sitting around for another six months hoping the problem > will go away (it won't), perhaps we should just update/merge Jen's > patch as a sorely needed interim fix. > > This might then prod James et al into looking more at the SCSI side of > things, and some year we might see this get replaced with a better scheme. > > This is a real problem, and an immediate solution is needed last spring. Folks, bitching around on lkml on this won't get you far. Send the patch to linux-scsi again, and explain what's the current stance on the disk synchronize cache and spindown issues. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html