Re: Unmounting/Ejecting removable media

2013-05-11 Thread Alois Mahdal
Hello, On Fri, 10 May 2013 22:47:01 -0400 Curt Howland 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 in the cac

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 criti

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: http://support.micro