Keith C. Perry wrote:
> Is there some definite way someone can test their IDE drives so see whether or
> not they are "lying" about write completions? Perhaps someone somewhere has a
> list of drives that are known to exhibit this problem- a IDE drive blacklist of
> sorts?
I believe using hdparm on linux, one can see whether or not write caching is
enabled and also set the caching.
I don't think any IDE disk would lie about write caching status. (If one does
then it is really hard to find out unless brute force is used.)
Just a thought..
Shridhar
