One reasons to associate this with the drive and not the motherboard so that you can swap drives at any time, either multiple in the same computer or between computers.
That said, the sentence you quote is troublesome:
> Since it is possible to Add an LBA to the NV Cache Pinned Set without
> requiring the LBA's sector data to be added to the NV Cache, there
> will be times that the NV Cache will contain LBAs whose sector data
> is incorrect.
If a sector is in the NV cache, shouldn't it be the true value of the sector (that just hasn't made it to the rotational media yet)?
-Costa
- [t13] NV cache Hale Landis
- Constantine Sapuntzakis
