On Tuesday 24 April 2007 21:04, Eric Anderson wrote: > > If it is a transient error then panicing seems to be about the > > worse response :) > > Doesn't a failed ATA FLUSHCACHE mean that the device could not > complete it's writing of cached bits to stable storage within the > timeout period? That seems to me that the flushcache should be called > more frequently then, so less writes have to be written out. I don't know what the exact semantics of the flush command are. Also I have no data on typical delays for flushes, etc.. Kind of useless really 8-) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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