You could frig with the firmware on the drives directly. scsirastools will let you issue mode page commands to the drives to modify their configuration. If you want to experiment with the drives take a look at the cache segmentation parameters and pre-fetch policies on Mode page 8 as a place to start.
I don't know if scsirastools will support pass through on your RAID controller. If it doesn't you might have to get an old adaptec 39320 or similar controller off Ebay and use that to fiddle with the mode pages. YMMV.