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

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