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Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 00:53:26 -0600
To: Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz>
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At 11:02 PM 7/8/2001, Craig Harding wrote:

>The tech docs I downloaded from Maxtor's website for this drive (a
>Quantum Fireball Plus AS 20GB) list a "flush cache" command which would
>presumably do the trick on a shutdown. Is this not a standard ATA
>command?

It's not universal. And according to Kirk McKusick, some drives "lie"
and don't actually flush everything.

--Brett


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