Message-ID: <000601bf2eb7$d5587420$9be5bcca@tm.net.my>
From: "Mohd. Shafiq" <shafiq AT muslim DOT com>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
References: <Pine DOT BSF DOT 3 DOT 96 DOT 991113214227 DOT 27866B-100000 AT PoInter DOT wahid DOT com>
Subject: Re: What is the use of smartdrv.exe
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 14:46:21 +0800
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com


> Greetings ....
>    If Windows wants to write such as 3kb file to HD (Hard Disk), he do it
> softly. I use function fwrite and fread to read and write to HD. In
> practice HD's led lights quite long, quite rough I think, even I only
> write a small file.
>    Is this the use of smartdrive.exe in Windows ??
>    If true, is someone know how it works and is someone develope it for
> djgpp community, please ...

Smartdrive has not much of a use in Windows. Windows has its own smartdrive
called Virtual drive, if I am not mistaken. Vdrive will take over the
function of smartdrive in windows.

Smartdrive is only useful if you use pure dos (not MS-DOS prompt).