Right now I'm playing with drive write-behind.
As of now, I still can not turn it off.

I'm trying to report results about the effects of disabling
write-behind on disk performance and on internet speed.
I've been reading this article. See the paragraph that starts with
"Another cause is poorly written 32-bit disk drivers"
http://www.cerberus-sys.com/~belleis...aq/overrun.htm
The article says a tempopary solution to slow internet speeds until
you can update your hard drive, bios and other drivers is to
temporarily disable drive-write behind. I installed a new drive in
2003, can't update my bios [don't ask], and have the latest win98
drivers available. So I thought I would try to temporarily disable
write-behind to test the effects. But I can not report results to
this NG until I can disable write-behind.

Sir, my current vcache settings are just the latest temporary settings
from months of playing with Cacheman and reading articles about memory
management. My current vcache settings use Cacheman to set min and
max vcache to 3072 and set chucksize to 512. Then I let windows
manage files and buffers by remming out lines files= and buffers=
from my autoexec.bat These current settings give me some stability
and (most importantly) free up for other uses about 13 meg of ram of
my miniscule 48 meg ram. Otherwise, sir, my machine starts swapping
early and often like a sinful couple in an open marriage.

Soooooooo, right now it's about disabling wite-behind.
I have faith in this NG. I know posters are searching for options.
This newsgroup has never failed me.