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Give me time.

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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, David Eckhardt wrote:

> Sam Hopkins (sah@softcardsystems.com) pointed out to me in
> private mail this charming message:
>   http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0304.1/0450.html
> which is a post from a Maxtor employee to the effect that IDE
> drives are allowed to arbitrarily re-order writes if the "write
> cache" is turned on.


if only the ide drives talked 9p ...

only about 1/4 kidding.

ron

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