Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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>>> SATAII brute forces itself through some of its performance, for
>>> example 16MB write cache on each drive.
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>> sure but for any serious usage one either wants to disable that
>> cache(and rely on tagged command queuing or how that is called in SATAII
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> Why? Assuming we have a BBU, why would you turn off the cache?
the BBU is usually only protecting the memory of the (hardware) raid
controller not the one in the drive ...
Stefan