^^ I don't remember the name of the areca engineer but he was very cooperative/responsive.
Unfortunately - no luck on a fix. :(
About disabling the cache - sure - performance takes a big hit.
But you know - the 4GB cache is why I bought this card in the 1st place - why would I want to run w/o it? :)
My areca POC also reported that all 1880's with expandable cache and one or more of the 1680 series all have built in expanders and as such the acards will not run with these controllers at sata300. :(
Now that said - there are 1880s that do not have the expander and in those - the acard's will run at sata300 - areca tested this.
I didn't want to go that way because the cache was something like 512 or less - not what I was looking for.
You have very good options with the acards though - i believe they run well across most controllers. :)
Particulary - they seem to like the SB P67 PCH.
This is hopefull in that they may also perform well later this year when SB-E arrives. :D
All acards that I have are personal property and I doubt I'll be interested in selling any until I find something faster. :)
