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[MiNT] Hard disk cache flush on shutdown (was Re: MiNT, CT60 and power off)

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Subject: [MiNT] Hard disk cache flush on shutdown (was Re: MiNT, CT60 and power off)
From: Patrice Mandin <mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 22:49:01 +0100
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Le Fri,  9 Jan 2004 12:30:18 +0100
Xavier Joubert <xavier.joubert@free.fr> 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

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References:
- Re: [MiNT] MiNT, CT60 and power off
  - From: Xavier Joubert <xavier.joubert@free.fr>
- Re: [MiNT] MiNT, CT60 and power off
  - From: "Konrad Kokoszkiewicz" <draco@obta.uw.edu.pl>
- Re: [MiNT] MiNT, CT60 and power off
  - From: Xavier Joubert <xavier.joubert@free.fr>

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