On Thu, 10 Aug 2017, John D. Baker wrote: > Now to see if that makes a difference. (There's still the possibility > of OEM-crippled firmware making it misbehave unless it gets the secret > handshake from the OEM's RAID controller.)
That helped and sped up the write by a factor of 8.73. The cache settings are not savable, so wherever these disks get used, they will need their write cache turned on again whenever the machine is power-cycled. -- |/"\ John D. Baker, KN5UKS NetBSD Darwin/MacOS X |\ / jdbaker[snail]mylinuxisp[flyspeck]com OpenBSD FreeBSD | X No HTML/proprietary data in email. BSD just sits there and works! |/ \ GPGkeyID: D703 4A7E 479F 63F8 D3F4 BD99 9572 8F23 E4AD 1645