Nuno Lucas wrote:
On 4/26/07, John Elrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2. Settings which cause Media Center to return control more
optimistically than Pro or Home. In this case, there would be a
hypothetically higher risk of data loss on the Media Center machine.
However, the point of a synchronous=FULL, as I understand it, it to
thoroughly verify that the data is "safe". It would be good to know if
there is a way to defeat this safeguard and how to determine if it has
been defeated.
The thing is cheap IDE disks already lie to the OS saying they had
flushed the buffers when they don't. Maybe Windows knows it can't
depend on the drive and falls back to the lazy write scheme, (the
default on Windows 2000).
Very possible, however, for the record the drives in both machines are
SCSI and are fairly high end.
John
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