asked on 5/14/2011

Disable Write Caching?

Hiya,

I have a Poweredge 2900, running SBS 2003. There are consistent entries in the Event Log (32, 13512, 1589) that indicate the disks have write cache enabled. I went into the device manager and disabled that setting for the Perc SCSI controller, but that hasn't cleared the error. (Yes, I rebooted the server). Anything else I can do?

Thanks

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Qlemo

6/10/2011

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Ian Pattison

5/14/2011

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Jason Watkins

5/14/2011

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I was afraid of that. I'll give it a look and see if that does it. BTW, is there any harm in leaving the caching enabled, as from the obvious?

Ian Pattison

5/14/2011

Unless your cache has battery backup onboard, In the event of a power failure, you can lose unwritten data, which could be fatal to the server if it's registry information etc...

But you knew that...

I'd turn it off ASAP!

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Viral Rathod

5/14/2011

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6/10/2011

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