Re: SmartDrive

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 03/14/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:46:02 -0500

What do you mean - "huh?"

It is as was replied to you and was provided via SMARTDRIVE.EXE which created a cache in
Extended RAM.

What you are thinking "Smart" which monitors the health of a IDE hard disk and is a hard
disk BIOS to motherboard BIOS communication and can be tapped via software.

Dave

"MrsSoto" <mrssoto57@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uew$9UWCEHA.2404@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
| huh?
| "DennisLazo.com" <email@dennislazo.com> wrote in message
| news:uqabJKWCEHA.2576@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
| > quote from http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/Smartdrive.html:
| >
| > "A disk caching system provided by Microsoft with later versions of DOS
| and
| > used with Windows 3.1. Disk caching provides faster access to data on a
| hard
| > disk. Smartdrive allows you to monitor how the cache is used and change
| the
| > cache size to optimize performance.
| >
| > "Starting with Windows 95, Smartdrive was replaced by a disk caching
| system
| > called VCACHE."
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| > "MrsSoto" <mrssoto57@hotmail.com> wrote in message
| > news:%23Ncp31VCEHA.3804@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
| > > Hi, I just discovered that I have something called Smart Drive on my
| > > computer. From what I can gather on the web, it is something that can
| > detect
| > > problems with your hard drive. Is it running constantly, or does it run
| at
| > > startup or shutdown? Is it a Windows program or is it somewhere on the
| > > motherboard? I think I've gotten a little deeper into this computer than
| I
| > > should be.Thanks for any comments or suggestions.
| > >
| > >
| >
| >
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