From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Fri Jan 9 22:53:57 2004 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 22:49:01 +0100 From: Patrice Mandin To: Mint list Subject: [MiNT] Hard disk cache flush on shutdown (was Re: MiNT, CT60 and power off) Message-Id: <20040109224901.1a4809f6.mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <1073647818.3ffe90caec774@imp3-a.free.fr> References: <1073566032.3ffd5150759fb@imp4-l.free.fr> <003401c3d657$bd19f680$8b0863d9@blaszak> <1073647818.3ffe90caec774@imp3-a.free.fr> Organization: Chez moi X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by prinz.cs.uni-magdeburg.de id i09Lron21284 Le Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:30:18 +0100 Xavier Joubert a écrit: > I would be more confident with, say, 3 seconds (some 2"5 IDE drives > chips with a 16 MB cache ! see http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx? It would be better to do it "the right way". Maybe having a look at Linux kernel sources would help. Here is what it related to IDE disks when flushing caches: http://lxr.linux.no/search?v=2.4.22&string=ide_cacheflush -- Patrice Mandin WWW: http://membres.lycos.fr/pmandin/ Programmeur Linux, Atari Spécialité: Développement, jeux