On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Glyn Astill <glynastill@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- On Mon, 24/11/08, Steve Clark <sclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > Yeah the battery's on it, that and the 128Mb is >> really the only reason I thought I'd give it a whirl. >> > >> > >> Is the battery functioning? We found that the unit had to >> be on and charged before write back caching >> would work. > > Yeah the battery is on there, and in the BIOS it says it's "PRESENT" and the status is "GOOD". If I remember correctly, older LSI cards had pretty poor performance in RAID 1+0 (or any layered RAID really). Have you tried setting up RAID-1 pairs on the card and then striping them with the OS? -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance