You may be right but: 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. scsijon At 02:45 PM 24/02/2004, Kastus wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:20:02AM +1100, scsijon wrote:
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.
This is too misleading. Writeback cache on the disk drive has nothing to do with cache on the motherboard.
The error is caused by a missing feature in Maxtor drives. I interpret it as an informative message that kernel will not use writeback cache on the disk drive.
Please see my other post on this topic: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-Feb/0017.html
It's not really a linux problem just an oversmart motherboard as many are nowadays.
Again, motherboard has nothing to do with it, it's a Maxtor disk drive missing feature.
Regards, -Kastus
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