Re: Have ext3 on SanDisk CF but can't disable write-back caching as kernel instructs
From: John Thompson (john_at_starfleet.os2.us)
Date: 07/14/03
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 05:12:50 GMT
In article <4189894b.0307101425.23f52806@posting.google.com>, Dan Harkless wrote:
> Did some research and found that I need to use 'hdparm -W0' to turn
> off write-back caching (shouldn't that be handled automatically by the
> ext3 drivers?), but it fails to work on the SanDisk drive:
AFAIK, hdparm only works with IDE drives. All the USB drives I've seen
show up as SCSI devices.
-- -John (JohnThompson@new.rr.com)
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