Re: Disk write cache (Was: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability)

On Mon, 16 May 2005 10:33:30 EDT, Jeff Garzik said:

> Upon power loss, at least one ATA vendor's disks try to write out as 
> much data as possible.

Does the firmware for this vendor's disks have enough smarts to reserve that
last little bit of power to park the heads so it's not actively writing when
it finally loses entirely?

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