Message-Id: <3.0.6.16.19991114192526.3647cff2@mail.cybercable.fr>
Organization: Michelle's Internet Service
X-Link: http://www.michelle-is.com/index.htm
X-Moto: Micr0$oft = What do you want to crash today?
X-Sender: starone AT mail DOT cybercable DOT fr
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (16)
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:25:26 +0100
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Michelle Konzack <starone AT cybercable DOT fr>
Subject: Re: What is the use of smartdrv.exe
In-Reply-To: <000601bf2eb7$d5587420$9be5bcca@tm.net.my>
References: <Pine DOT BSF DOT 3 DOT 96 DOT 991113214227 DOT 27866B-100000 AT PoInter DOT wahid DOT com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com
Precedence: bulk

Hello,

I do not know "Vdrive" because it is a Win9x thing ???
I am working wit WfW 3.11 and I need Smartdrive because 
it is the Disk-Cache program.

If I am working without it, WfW 3.11 is very slow in 
writing data to disk.


Michelle


At 14:46 14.11.1999 +0800, you wrote
--------> This was the original Message:
MK>
MK>> Greetings ....
MK>>    If Windows wants to write such as 3kb file to HD (Hard Disk), he do it
MK>> softly. I use function fwrite and fread to read and write to HD. In
MK>> practice HD's led lights quite long, quite rough I think, even I only
MK>> write a small file.
MK>>    Is this the use of smartdrive.exe in Windows ??
MK>>    If true, is someone know how it works and is someone develope it for
MK>> djgpp community, please ...
MK>
MK>Smartdrive has not much of a use in Windows. Windows has its own smartdrive
MK>called Virtual drive, if I am not mistaken. Vdrive will take over the
MK>function of smartdrive in windows.
MK>
MK>Smartdrive is only useful if you use pure dos (not MS-DOS prompt).
MK>
--------> The Reply begins not here, it is at the beginning ^
									
Attention:

If you get this Mail from a mailing-list and you answer, please do 
not CC: me, post it only to the list, otherwise I get all twice .

+--------------------------------------------------+           .~.        
| Michelle's Internet Service                      |           /V\        
|                                                  |          // \\       
| Michelle, Andrea-Cinderella Konzack              |         /(   )\      
|     11, rue de Rosheim                           |          ^`~'^       
|     67000 Strasbourg - France                    |
|     Mob. 0033 / (0)6.62.61.78.37                 |     powered by Linux
|                                                  |           ----       
| mailto:starone AT cybercable DOT fr                     |      solutions  for  
| http://www.michelle-is.com/ (currently off-line) |      smart penguins  
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+