Disabling Windows read caching on the drive

NTDEV
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All,

I would like to know how to disable the Windows’ cache for both read/write
to the drive.

best regards,
Peter

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You can’t disable caching for a whole drive, you can do it only for a
specific file.

Alexei.

“Peter Teng” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
> All,
>
> I would like to know how to disable the Windows’ cache for both read/write
> to the drive.
>
> best regards,
> Peter
>
>
>

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Peter,

you wrote on Friday, September 5, 2003, 00:34:44:

PT> I would like to know how to disable the Windows’ cache for both
PT> read/write to the drive.

Try IOCTL_DISK_SET_CACHE_INFORMATION.

Ralf.

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“Alexei Jelvis” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
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> You can’t disable caching for a whole drive, you can do it only for a
> specific file.
>

That is, without writing a file system filter driver.

Peter
OSR

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“Ralf Buschmann” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
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>
> Try IOCTL_DISK_SET_CACHE_INFORMATION.
>

Whoa! That raises a good point. Are we talking about “caching” in the
Windows file-system sense (as in the cache manager) or “caching” in the “the
disk drive might keep stuff around in its hardware before its written”
sense?

Peter
OSR

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Peter,

you wrote on Friday, September 5, 2003, 14:26:11:

> Try IOCTL_DISK_SET_CACHE_INFORMATION.

PV> Whoa! That raises a good point. Are we talking about “caching” in
PV> the Windows file-system sense (as in the cache manager) or “caching”
PV> in the “the disk drive might keep stuff around in its hardware
PV> before its written” sense?

I think I misunderstood the OP. He asked about the “windows cache” while
this IOCTL deals with the disk’s hardware cache. Sorry.

Ralf.