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scsi: introduce a quirk for false cache reporting

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Some SATA to USB bridges fail to cooperate with some
drives resulting in no cache being present being reported
to the host. That causes the host to skip sending
a command to synchronize caches. That causes data loss
when the drive is powered down.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Oliver Neukum
2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 6406c3d226
commit 050bc4e846
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@@ -4238,6 +4238,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
medium is write-protected).
y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
even if the device claims no cache)
Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
user_debug= [KNL,ARM]