On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:01:51 EST, Jeff Garzik wrote: >Mark Hahn wrote: >>>* With ATA passthru (in libata-dev currently), libata supports SMART and >>>the HDIO_CMD/HDIO_TASK generalized ioctls. Should I care about >>>supporting other ioctls? >> >> >> is there some other mechanism to en/disable write caching? > >Besides the SG_IO | HDIO_DRIVE_CMD | HDIO_DRIVE_TASK | >HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE ioctls? Nope. > > Jeff
One thing that I would hope for is the ability to recognize that a drive may prefer the use of write cache be set by the drive, defaulting to off, and not have to come back later and turn it off. Certain drives destined to be used in server class machines will be coming that way. ++doug - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
