Actually, I can't get the Writeback cache to work at all.  :(
It won't turn off.  I uncheck it, but if you check again either after 
reboot or right away, it is checked.

As I recall I either had it working on NT4 or Win2000 before my box had to 
be 98 for some software I was using at the time.

Is there another way to turn this off?

I can get a small <30k file to write to the drive just fine.
I can format the drive and delete some files fine.

This is screwey.

Thanks,

Matt Minnis

At 04:15 PM 8/10/2001, Dillon, Jeff wrote:
>There are certain models of the ZIP 100 that NEVER work right under NT.
>Seem to recall that they once offered an "IDE" and an "ATAPI" version (a
>curious distinction), with one of them being a turkey on anything other than
>w9x.
>
>If you are unable to write to this drive even when you wait for some silly
>5-sec timer to flush a cache, then the problem is NOT with the cache setting
>at all but rather with the suspect-as-usual Iomega drivers.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 4:56 PM
>To: NT System Admin Issues
>Subject: RE: Urgent: Win2000 Write delay cache
>
>
>Device Manager, Go to the ZIP drive, get the properties, Disk Properties
>and Writeback Cache box.
>I havenet ever done this with a ZIP drive, but that is where you can set
>that feature
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matt Minnis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 11:25 AM
>To: NT System Admin Issues
>Subject: Urgent: Win2000 Write delay cache
>
>
>Help!
>
>Does anyone know how to disable the Win2000 Write delay cache?
>
>I have a Zip disk that is giving me all sorts of trouble and I can't
>save
>anything on it without errors.  I have tried different versions of
>Iomega's
>IomegaWare and had no luck.  I am running SP2, it did this on a fresh
>install of Win2000 pro.  I am using Zip drives with no problems on other
>
>machines (much different hardware).
>
>This machine is an:
>AMD Athlon 1200 in an IWill motherboard
>256Mb SDram PC133
>
>I think I would be okay if I could disable write caching to this drive
>only.
>
>Anyone know how to do this?  (or fix this issue?)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Matt Minnis
>
>
>
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