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Disabling write caching for eSATA drives?
I'm using eSATA drives store images (I'm a photographer) and swap drives
according to client. I'm running Vista64 with lots of RAM. Problem is that the file transfer progress bar will show that data transfer is complete when in reality it's still being transferred from the cache to the target drive. If I remove the drive I risk interrupting the transfer and get corrupted files. I currently watch the drive light to insure that all activity has been completed. Indexing is disabled and I still use the "Safely Remove Hardware" and wait for the "Safe to remove" pop up before removing it. Is there any way I can disable disk caching only for the Marvell SATA controller that this drive is attached to? It's an ASUS P6X58D-E motherboard and all other drives are attached to its Intel ICH10R Southbridge Controller. There is solution from ASUS, but I thought perhaps a Windows Registry modification might be available? Or is there a way to disable caching for only that drive? Again perhaps via a Windows Registry modification? Or is there a utility that will confirm the all data has been written to the target drive? In the Device Manager the drive has 'Optimize for performance' and 'Enable write cache on the disk' both enabled. The 'Optimize for quick removal' option is grayed out. If I uncheck 'Enable write cache on the disk' it gets immediately re-enabled. Thanks for any suggestions :-) Russell |
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Disabling write caching for eSATA drives?
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:28:35 -0400, Russell wrote:
There is solution from ASUS, but I thought perhaps a Windows Registry modification might be available? CORRECTION: There is NO solution from ASUS, but I thought perhaps a Windows Registry modification might be available? Russell |