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How to Disable write behind cache

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by stretch23

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I am a system administrator that was just informed by our QA department that we need to Disable Write Behind Cache on over 400 9X clients that are stand-alone units. By stand-alone I mean it has no monitor, keyboard, just a 3 line LCD and thtats about it. I was wondering if it was possible to disable it by editing the registry or using a SET command?

Anything that you can think is better than I have got now other than dragging around a monitor and keyboard to all the machines and doing it all manually.

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by randalbin

This can be done in the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\DriveWriteBehind.

DriveWriteBehind is a binary value. In my Win98SE OS the Enabled value was displayed as FC FF FF 03 and disabled was 00 00 00 80. I dont know if the values differ for other operating systems. You might have to experiment with your other operating systems to find the right values.

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