On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Ron Mayer wrote:
> Scott Carey wrote:
>> Some SATA drives were known to not flush their cache when told to.
>
> Can you name one? The ATA commands seem pretty clear on the matter,
> and ISTM most of the reports of these issues came from before
> Linux had write-barrier support.
I can't name one, but I've seen it mentioned in the discussions on
linux-kernel several times by the folks who are writing the write-barrier
support.
David Lang