Bond Masuda said the following: > The CERC 1.5 SATA RAID controller is the Adaptec based 6 channel > controller right? If so, that controller is really poor... Yes, at least it has 6 channels and the loaded module ist aacraid. And it might be poor, but 6MB/s write speed is ridiculous...
> But, as far as write performance is concerned, did you enable write > cache? For me, that made a significant difference, but even though it > was better, it was still performing poorly compared to other > controllers. It will probably warn you that you shouldn't enable write > cache without a battery, but performance is very poor without it, and > I'm not sure that a battery option is available. When creating the volume I enabled write cache and it indeed warned me about possible data loss in the event of a power outage. But I did not find a way to verify this setting using afacli. Cheers Nicki -- Linksystem Muenchen GmbH We make the Net work Schloerstrasse 10 Tel. 089 / 890 518-0 80634 Muenchen Fax 089 / 890 518-77 [email protected] http://www.link-m.de Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 129182 Geschaeftsfuehrung: Christine Wittig, Mathias Zunterer PGP Keys: https://www.link-m.de/pgp/ _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
