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From: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net>
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On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 10:03:51PM +0200, S?ren Schmidt wrote:
> Nope, but I have seen a few disks that claims to support flush and then 
> do wierd things when asked to...

I guess so yes.

So this is a disk issue instead of a chip issue?

You see, I'm not very familiar with ATA :-)

> We should find out why it does not return, my guess is that 
> it doesn't interrupt and the timeout doesn't fire because we are on the 
> way down...

Any hints where to start looking?

I'll keep investigating myself too.

Thanks for any help.

Mark