On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 09:39:42PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: > > I assume by 'write caching' you mean async. > > No. I think he meant caching by the disk device (see the note about > atactl writecachedisable).
I forgot: And thus may be as (or even more) worse as async. But then I'm a hardware agnostic, so please correct me if I'm wrong.