On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:15:37AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > Patrick M. Hausen wrote: [snip] > > It is very arguably a bug in the LSI firmware if it is actually dumping > its cache when a PCI reset occurs, especially if a battery unit is > present. However, I seriously doubt that you will get anyone at LSI to > listen to this problem. Do you get any messages on the console at > shutdown about the amr driver flushing the cache? Also, check the cache > setting on the drives itself. Maybe the drives are loosing power or > getting reset while data is in their cache. It's bad practice to enable > the write cache on a drive in an RAID array for just this very reason, > but some vendors do it anyways in an attempt to cover up poor > performance.
Is there some way to tell if write caching is turned on or not for the drives in the array? In particular, I have an Areca controller (ARC-1210) with 4 SATA drives attached that I would like to check for this on. Bob -- Bob Willcox Possessions increase to fill the space [EMAIL PROTECTED] available for their storage. Austin, TX -- Ryan _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"