Hi Al,

Yes, it's an IDE drive. The only thing I could find in the MS KB was that the drive needs to have NVRAM to retain the setting (Article ID: Q233541)

You'd think that there would be a registry key that could control/remember this. Like they've mentioned in the VFP forum, maybe with the next service pack. If I knew how, I'd write a batch program to run at start up to disable it...

- Brian

>>>Does anyone know of a registry setting that disables write caching on a drive by default?
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>>>- Brian
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>>That's in Windows 2000 by the way...
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>>- Brian
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>If it's an IDE drive, there has been a lot of discussion of this in the VFP forum. Current consensus is - no one knows how to do it, it looks like the ATAPI driver is resetting the value at boot time regardless of what may be in the registry.