Matt Simerson wrote: > Disk caching is a completely different animal, and one which I didn't > mention. I'm spoke only about the write cache on the controller. Mine > all arrived off by default, which is a VERY reasonable default > configuration. Page 97 of the manual says about it:
Ahhh, no I was talking about the disk cache setting. That is the one that is set to on by default (at least for me). I find it strange that this is the case. IMHO it makes the idea of a Battery backed cache redundant. > Perhaps it's model specific, or your vendor configured it that way. Or > you got a return that someone else monkeyed with. I'm not going to speak > for Areca but it seems quite odd that Areca would ship them with the > cache enabled. I've used many hundreds of RAID controllers over the > years and without exception, every single one with a write cache had it > disabled by default. I guess I had a return model. It's not really a big deal. -D _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
