On 18-9-2012 19:31, todderamaa wrote:

> I believe this is the problem.
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> We found the setting when looking at the Device Manager. The 'enable write caching' is turned off. It won't allow us to turn it on. I am guess the hardware doesn't allow it.
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> In the Windows Help it mentions that turning it on can cause issues with corruption.
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> Are these the same issues as we have if we turn 'forced writes off' in Firebird?
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> I am thinking the risk of 'forced writes off' in Firebird is greater than turning write caching on in Windows.

Is the server also the Domain Controller/Active Directory? If so, then
Windows forces caching to off on the disk that contains AD store.

Mark
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