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Just wanted to say thanks very much for the fw/BIOS resources for the LSI cards! I've used the 1068E P21 file to successfully update an IBM 3082E-R card (B3 rev), no problems at all (I kept it with the -IR firmware). I do have one question though: how can I turn on write caching when creating a hardware stripe within the LSI BIOS? Anyone know? It can't be done through Windows Disk Manager (yeah, I know, I'm using Windows; alas it's a system I'm building for use by someone else, an After Effects setup). If I don't create a hardware RAID using the LSI BIOS setup, but instead just let the disks be passed through to the OS, then I can create a software stripe ok (dynamic drives) and the write caching works fine (350MB/sec using four kinda old 1TB Hitachi Enterprise SATA). Or would I be better off using a software stripe anyway, and just changing the LSI card to -IT firmware? Yours, Ian. PS. For reference, the test system is a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R, XEON E5540, etc., but the final build employing the LSI card will be an ASUS P9X79, 3930K, etc. Win7/Ult/64bit in all cases.