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by johnnyt

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We are using a pcmcia parallel port flash card reader by Filmate on Win2K machines (as well as others). Under Win2k, we'll receive "delayed write errors" unless we wait an inordinate amount of time after writing to media before we remove the media from the device. I believe that we may be able to cure the problem if I could find a way to disable the caching for this device but the option is greyed out. I have updated the driver for the device.

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by roadrunnerchaser

Make sure you tell the os that you are ejecting the device, before you phisically remove it from the reader. This is also true with usb devices as well. This is required with w2k and wxp, and it works great, but only if you tell the os that you wantto eject the media.

by johnnyt

Thanks RoadRunner but your answer just restates my problem. It's easy enough to "tell the os I want to eject" under Win9x/Millenium because there's an icon placed in the tray for pcmcia devices which you can click on and stop the service. But, under Win2k, I haven't found a simple way to stop the service.

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