>>>>Here is a link for some OSs: http://www.enfile.com/windowsnetworks/writecachesetting.htm
>>>>
>>>>I'll try and dig out the article that explains how to do this in NT4.
>>>>
>>>>Jason
>>>>
>>>Should I re-boot? I did disable cash and got this error again :(
>>
>>Nadya,
>>
>>I would be surprised, very surprised if that fixed the problem. Disabling the write cache is a kind of safety against a computer crash. If your pc does not crash and you don't CTRL+ALT_DEL, then it will not help
>
>I'm not so sure about that.
>I've had MS Word be the victim of an error saying something about '... some data was lost...' with write cache enabled. After getting it twice in 2 days in Word - no crashes in either case - I turned off write cahce and never got it again since.
>Based on that experience my thought was (is) that turning it off has a good chance of letting it work.
>
>cheers

Jim,

As I said, I'd be surprised

If we can trust the cache algorithms in the OS, that is