>I wrote about this a while back, I guess around the time of 2.1.70,
>and was told to wait a few kernels and check back.
>Anyways, I have 2 UDMA drives and I can't use write cacheing with these
>drives in UDMA mode. Giving a hdparm -W1 to these drives causes irq
>timeouts followed by reset requests. These same drives work fine with
>write cacheing enabled in UDMA mode under winblowz. They also work fine
>with write cacheing enabled in linux with UDMA turned off in the BIOS
>and just using DMA mode 2. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
This works fine for me. Could you be more specific about your drives and your
UDMA controller?
I have a 7.0 GB Maxtor UDMA drive and a Promise UDMA controller.
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