Re: SmartDrive
From: Annoyed (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/14/04
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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:55:24 -0800
Lipman, you wiseass. Idiots like you should be banned
from posting replies.
BTW, you may want to brush up on your grammar. "It is as
was replied to you" is very poor english. Don't you
agree. Huh?
>-----Original Message-----
>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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