Re: Disable write caching?

From: davexnet02 (davexnetzerotwo_at_hooya!.com)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 02:36:40 GMT

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:20:04 -0700, "root" <postmaster@buchanangc.com>
wrote:

>
>"Ryan" <ryfong@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:4467d5ba.0408221742.3171bc7a@posting.google.com...
>> Hi, I've seen it asked before but I don't believe I've seen it
>> answered. How do you disable write caching if the option is grayed
>> out? A friend of mine needs to turn it off to run an xray management
>> program
>
>Curiosity, why turn it off?
>
>> but they can't figure out how to do so. They're running XP on
>> an AMD64 2800+ system, Maxtor SATA hd and they're logged on as admin.
>> Any ideas? All the computers that I have access to, the option is not
>> grayed out. Any help would be appreciated.
>
In general, it's an option thru the driver.
If the default IDE drivers are used, this option is available.
If any other driver is used and/or third party scsi/IDE/SATA
controllers, it may not be.
Check the driver doc.
Dave

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