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Enable disk write caching?
Name: Hooner Date: January 20, 2004 at 01:49:50 Pacific OS: Win Xp Pro s/p 1 CPU/Ram: Athlon XP 2000+ 256 PC270
Comment:
Hello all :-)
Just been running a boot and driver trace with Bootvis, in the results under "Disk IO" I have a message "Warning! Disk write caching is disabled."
Sure enough, I went to my HDDs properties, and under "Policies" the whole "Write caching and safe removal" field is greyed out!!
lol, why have I not noticed this before? surely it must be affecting performance? yet everything SEEMS ok..........
Name: WelshDragon Date: January 20, 2004 at 03:07:33 Pacific
Reply:
Cant you enable it in:
System, Device Manager.
Right click on your hard disk and select properties, there should be a tick box there.
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Response Number 2
Name: Hooner Date: January 20, 2004 at 03:54:40 Pacific
Reply:
Nope..........
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser Date: January 20, 2004 at 04:37:41 Pacific
Reply:
Hooner,
All I can think of is enable UDMA (ultra direct memory access)modes setting in the BIOS?
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Response Number 4
Name: setishock Date: January 21, 2004 at 03:15:22 Pacific
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Go to device mamager and click the plus by IDE ATA?ATAPI. When it opens then right click on the IDE channels one at a time. You will see the settings for your drive. If it is a modern drive the window should show> Use UDMA if available. If it is using UDMA as current setting it will show current UDMA mode, Mine runs in mode 5 for exsample. Do this for each channel. Note: cd roms run in PIO mode. A burner may or may not run in DMA but not UDMA. Go to the bios and adjust the drive settings for PIO and UDMA/DMA to Auto. That should do it.
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Name: Hooner
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