How to disable write caching on a disk

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From: olan (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 00:48:54 -0800

Enabling-Disabling write caching on a disk from device
manager performance doesn't change. Are there other
settings to configure?

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