> Right now I have noticed that LSI has recently began offering some > lower-budget stuff; specifically I am looking at the MegaRAID SAS > 8208ELP/XLP, which are very reasonably priced.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that their tech support was very willing to look into queries by end-users without any kind of fuss. This will be a reason for me to prefer LSI in the future. I got the following response regarding cache flushing on the 8208: ===== Yes the 8208 does honor OS flush cache commands. Disk cache would be flushed with every flush cache from the OS. There is an out of resource condition though, which can cause the flush cache not to happen. The out of resource condition that you refer to can be seen under heavy I/O. The problem can cause *some* cache flush commands to be missed. There is currently no quantitative data on this issue. This issue is being looked at in the next firmware release. ===== -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org
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