>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mike> Try enabling DirectIO and WriteBack if you haven't already.
Mike> AMI's RAID5 implementation seems to suffer from rewriting the
Mike> entire stripe when you do sub-stripe-sized writes, but I'm not
Mike> sure about that yet.
Already done. This would explain why 128K stripes are bad.
Mike> The Mylex controllers seem to have a small edge in performance,
Mike> which may be due to them doing cache-line-sized I/Os (usually
Mike> only 8k) in that case.
Maybe so, but they also don't seem to support the LVD-enabled versions
of the Mylex cards.
Dave.
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