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Curtis Stevens wrote:
This message is from the T13 list server. Hale I have to disagree with you. I do not have any recollection of read ahead controlling read cache. To the best of my knowledge, this disables look ahead in WD drives but has no effect on read cache. Quite frankly I was shocked to hear that someone was actually interpreting the function as a cache disable. No ATA rev has even hinted that this was a cache disable...
So both you and Mark are saying there is no documented way to disable read caching in an ATA drive? It is only possible to disable the "read look ahead" part of some more complex "read caching" algorithm?
Hale -- ++ Hale Landis ++ www.ata-atapi.com ++
