Re: atactl parity w/scsictl? (enable SATA write cache?)

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

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.

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