On Jan 16, 2008 2:06 PM, Bryan Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The "disk motor as a generator" tale may not be purely folklore. When > >an IDE drive is not in writeback mode, something special needs to done > >to ensure the last write to media is not a scribble. > > No it doesn't. The last write _is_ a scribble.
Have you observed that in the wild? A former engineer of a disk drive company suggests to me that the capacitors on the board provide enough power to complete the last sector, even to park the head. Regards, Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
