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

• To: Mark Lord <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Disk write cache (Was: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability)
• From: "Eric D. Mudama" <[email protected]>
• Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 22:03:09 -0600
• Cc: Gene Heskett <[email protected]>, [email protected]
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On 5/15/05, Mark Lord <[email protected]> wrote:
> There's your clue.  The drive LEDs normally reflect activity
> over the ATA bus (the cable!). If they're not on, then the drive
> isn't receiving data/commands from the host.

Mark is correct, activity indicators are associated with bus activity,
not internal drive activity.
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