Message-ID: <382F1F05.39AF8C99@lycosmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 15:43:50 -0500
From: Adam Schrotenboer <ajschrotenboer AT lycosmail DOT com>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: What is the use of smartdrv.exe
References: <Pine DOT BSF DOT 3 DOT 96 DOT 991113214227 DOT 27866B-100000 AT PoInter DOT wahid DOT com> <3 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 16 DOT 19991114192526 DOT 3647cff2 AT mail DOT cybercable DOT fr>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

It's still not always necessary. Try enabling 32-bit _file_ access, not to be
confused w/ 32-bit _disk_ access. Then you probably won't need smartdrv anymore,
and you'll be better off w/o it. (If this works, then make sure to remove it from
config.sys {double buffering})  Only use it when in PLAIN OLD DOS, No windoze, no
dos window, etc.

BTW, 32-bit file access is only available on Windows 3.11 and WfW 3.11.

Michelle Konzack wrote:

> 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
> +--------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+