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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.