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From: freeptos@mips.COM (Dan Freitas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SMARTDRV.SYS  (for MS Windows)
Message-ID: <29898@obiwan.mips.COM>
Date: 23 Oct 89 00:50:48 GMT
References: <560@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: freeptos@mips.COM (Dan Freitas)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <560@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> elrond@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Brad Hlista) writes:
>Does the SMARTDRV.SYS supplied by MS Windows behave like a cache program
>when Windows is not running, ie can I install it in my CONFIG.SYS and have
>it work like a CACHE.SYS?  I don't want to have two cache programs running
>at the same time.



I don't know about MS windows, but smartdrv.sys comes with MS-DOS 4.01.  I 
have the line:
                 device=c:\dos\smartdrv.sys 512

in my config.sys to enable disk caching (for 512K of my 2nd meg of RAM).

This increased my average disk transfer rate from 255KBy/Sec (1:1 interleave)
to 5500-6000Kby/Sec!!  Good stuff.

						Dan Freitas
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