RE: Unmounting/Ejecting removable media

2013-05-11 Thread Kailash Kalyani
Hi Curt, Caching and I/O scheduling give performance benefits which is why they're used with most media. As I understand it you're wondering if it is possible to disable write caching in Windows? The answer to that is yes. Here's an old support article that describes how:

Re: Unmounting/Ejecting removable media

2013-05-11 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Saturday 11 May 2013, Kailash Kalyani was heard to say: Hi Curt, Good morning. Caching and I/O scheduling give performance benefits which is why they're used with most media. As I said, I don't mean media where transaction times are

Re: Unmounting/Ejecting removable media

2013-05-11 Thread Alois Mahdal
Hello, On Fri, 10 May 2013 22:47:01 -0400 Curt Howland howl...@priss.com wrote: It seems logical to me that there would be a way to say sync immediately or do not buffer, so that when the drive was inactive it could be yanked without danger of corruption. IMHO the core of the problem is not