Hi scsijon,
I wish this was so, i've found that some of the new motherboards with firmware and sata on board with revisions after dec 2003 are "too smart for their britches" and are controlling all devices via ata and sata.
- The latest P4PE bios is from nov. 26, 2003 (before dec. 2003) - I get the same messages from a Maxtor 6Y080L0 on an older MoBo (GA-8SIMLH with SiS 651 chipset) -> It seems that my 'writeback' messages are not related to the MoBo settings. - What's wrong about a controller that controls an ATA100 drive via ata?
You only need to disable the writeback cache on your motherboard (in the <DEL> whe the system starts up). It's there as windows uses it to make you think it runs faster as far as i can see.
If this is the case, can you please tell me how to 'deactivate writeback' in the BIOS? I don't find a feature like that on the Asus-P4PE-BIOS. What would be the name of the BIOS-entry to deactivate? many thanks Markus