I've seen drives where the read cache and write cache are disabled, or just the write cache is disabled. Don't know why it happens, but it would make sense for SR7 to check and enable them where needed.
Check Read Cache and Write Cache are Enabled
- Thread starter ShadowMeow
- Start date
- Watchers 2
-
Be sure to checkout “Tips & Tricks” Dear Guest Visitor → Once you register and log-in please checkout the “Tips & Tricks” page for some very handy tips!
/Steve. -
BootAble – FreeDOS boot testing freeware
To obtain direct, low-level access to a system's mass storage drives, SpinRite runs under a GRC-customized version of FreeDOS which has been modified to add compatibility with all file systems. In order to run SpinRite it must first be possible to boot FreeDOS.
GRC's “BootAble” freeware allows anyone to easily create BIOS-bootable media in order to workout and confirm the details of getting a machine to boot FreeDOS through a BIOS. Once the means of doing that has been determined, the media created by SpinRite can be booted and run in the same way.
The participants here, who have taken the time to share their knowledge and experience, their successes and some frustrations with booting their computers into FreeDOS, have created a valuable knowledgebase which will benefit everyone who follows.
You may click on the image to the right to obtain your own copy of BootAble. Then use the knowledge and experience documented here to boot your computer(s) into FreeDOS. And please do not hesitate to ask questions – nowhere else can better answers be found.
(You may permanently close this reminder with the 'X' in the upper right.)
SR will normally DISABLE any cache, you want to read/write to the actual disk, not just the cache. If you read from cache, you will not see any underlying disk issues.
Sorry, bad phrasing on my part. What I meant was that caching might obscure any disk issues, not that it would magically resolve them. It is only if you really read from the disk itself you can be sure that it has correctly stored the data.If this were true caching would be solution to a myriad of disk issues and problems
Similar threads
- Contains 2 staff post(s)
