Article ID: 000058579 Content Type: Troubleshooting Last Reviewed: 09/23/2021

Cannot Change the Drive Cache Policy of an Existing Virtual Drive in Intel® RAID Web Console 3 (RWC3)

Environment

Intel RWC3 007.014.010.000 for Windows*

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Summary

Explains how to change the drive cache policy using the StorCLI tool as a workaround.

Description

Cannot change the disk cache policy of an existing virtual drive as there is no disk cache policy option in the Modify Properties menu of Intel® RAID Web Console 3 (RWC3).

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Resolution

This will be resolved in future version of Intel RWC3.

Meanwhile, you can change the disk cache policy using the StorCLI tool:

  1. Download latest StorCLI tool.
  2. Run the following command to enable/disable disk cache policy, where Cx is the controller ID and Vx is the virtual drive ID:
    • Enable: Storcli64 /Cx /Vx set pdcache=on
    • Disable: Storcli64 /Cx /Vx set pdcache=off