On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Otto Moerbeek wrote:

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> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Brandon Lee wrote:
>
>> Hi Marco,
>>
>> There is no option to enable write cache via the PERC 5i/R controller
>> or Bios.  From bios, i could only select the perfornance of the HDD as
>> in "Bypass, Quiet, Suggested and Performance".
>
> I've seen this before. For some stupid reason you cannot enable the
> write cache from the BIOS. What a collegue did is use a linux live CD
> with a management program from LSI to enable it. After that all was
> OK.

I use LSI FiberChannel cards at work and have seen similar issues where
a parameter can't be changed via the BIOS interface.  I ended up making a
FreeDOS boot CD so I could use the LSI management tool for things that
weren't available from the BIOS.

g.day