>>>I have an application that needs to write small files to multiple PcCards (PCMCIA) several times per day on a Win2K Pro machine.
>>>If the user forgets to click the PcCard Icon in the system tray to stop the service, the file often gets garbaged since it did not get flushed properly.
>>>A simple VFP Flush does not do the trick in Win2K. It worked ok in Win9x.
>>>Is there an API function that could help?
>>>Any other suggestions?
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>>For W2K try the combination of W2K SP2 and VFP6 SP5.
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>I have SP2 installed, but I am still using VFP 5.0a. I plan to move to VFP 7 soon though.
>Will the window still come up warning the user about having removed the card?

Sorry, I have no idea. I thought you might have been using VFP6, which in earlier versions had some write cache issues with IDE hard drives.

You might check the Device Manager for the PC Card drive to see if there's any write caching going on and if it can be disabled.

In general, popping out hardware without notifying the OS is fraught with peril, so ultimately there may be no way around it other than to educate your (ab)users. But, I can see how you'd want to minimize the chances of error.