On 08/30/11 10:48, Tracy Pearson wrote: > The Policy of the drive in the VM might be set "Enable write caching on the > device". > Also; Anti-Virus, on demand backup, desktop indexing utilities have caused > troubles with CDX and FPT files for our clients. > > Tracy Pearson
Hi, Tracy Ever since Win XP I have been turning off Write Caching, and advising others to do so as well. When I went to do that on my current machine, Win7-64bit and SATA drives, when I unchecked the box I got something like "You cannot change this setting"! On researching this I learned that somewhere between Win7, the drivers, and the logic on the SATA drive itself, the system has decided that it knows what to do and is not interested in hearing from me. It apparently depends on the drive manufacturer - there are reports of drives where write caching cannot be turned ON, and ones like mine where it cannot be turned OFF. I've decided to hope that they have the problems solved and not worry about it. I do have to say that I haven't seen data corruption in a very long time. Dan Covill San Diego _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/4e5db4a2.2060...@san.rr.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
