LSI 1064E poor performance

[Scott Long]

Marko Lerota wrote:
> Marko Lerota <mlerota at iskon.hr> writes:
> 
>> Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> writes:
>>
>>> Go to the BIOS and turn on the cache for the array.
>> There is no any cache option in BIOS to tourn on, or in
>> LSI setup utility (CTRL+c) 
> 
> I installed debian and it's working fine. Do I really have to 
> switch to Linux?
> 

I'll say it one more time.  Go into the BIOS for the _controller_ and
turn on the cache.  Yes, linux performs better at 'dd' in the non-cache
case because linux sends larger i/o's down to the controller than 
freebsd does.  This difference matters little when doing real file i/o.
So no, you don't have to switch to linux, and no, linux doesn't actually
perform better.

This has been discussed many times on this and other mailing lists. 
Sorry for being grumpy.

Scott