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Thursday, July 8, 2010, 9:18:20 PM you wrote:

> However, I just verified with the hosting company that BBU is off on the
> raid controller.  I am trying to find out my options, turn it on, differe=
nt
> card, etc...

Turning it on requires the external BBU to be installed, so even if a 9650
has BBU support, it requires the hardware on a pluggable card.

And even If the BBU is present, it requires to pass the selftest once until
you are able to turn on write caching.


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