On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 11:33:23 +0200 
 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:

 > I'll try didabling the disk's write cache to see if this helps.
 > But a small delay (1s ?) between the message 'rebooting' or 'halting'
 > and the action could at last give us a change to see the messages :)

Is there a "flush cache" operation for IDE?

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