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At 06:08 AM 12/4/2007, Gergely CZUCZY wrote:
>cache seems to be turned on in the web-based management. However, I 
>still don't think this is OS-specific, since I see no OS-specific 
>options, and 3ware makes the devices available through SCSI, and WC 
>is handled differently there.

Its the queuing and StorSav setting that are important as 
well.  Under StorSav, you have "performance", "protection" and 
"balance".  Make sure those are the same as they drastically impact 
write performance of the card.


         ---Mike