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- SMARTDRV.SYS
- A disc cache in extended or expnded memory (for hard disk)
- See also <DEVICE> <CONFIG.SYS>
-
- COMMAND TYPE: System configuration VERSION: 4.0 and up
-
- USE: DEVICE=[d:][path]SMARTDRV.SYS [size] [a]
-
- d:path is an optional path to the SMARTDRV.SYS file
- size is the amount of memory to use for the cache (in kb). The default
- is 256k in extended memory, or all of available expanded memory.
- /a specifies that the cache should be placed in expanded memory (or in
- extended memory being used as expanded memory)
-
- A disc cache is an area of memory used to store recently accessed
- sectors of a hard disc. If subsequent read requests refer to those
- same sectors, they are simply transferred within memory, which is much
- faster than reading from the disc. SMARTDRV.SYS provides a cache in
- extended or expanded memory only (it cannot be placed in conventional
- memory). It will greatly improve performance for applications which
- use many small files, such as some database applications
-
- NOTE: This command should be placed in <CONFIG.SYS> and is not a normal DOS
- command.
-