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SMARTDRV--Examples

To create a SMARTDrive disk cache and use the default cache size, add the following command to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file: c:\dos\smartdrv Example: A typical SMARTDrive command Suppose you want to create a disk cache with a cache size of 2048K, and ensure that Windows will not reduce the size of the cache to less than 1024K. To do this and to specify that the SMARTDRV.EXE file is located in the DOS directory on drive C, add the following line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file: c:\dos\smartdrv 2048 1024 Example: Enabling and disabling caching on specific drives Suppose that SMARTDrive is already running and you want to enable write caching on drive C. To do this, type the following at the command prompt: smartdrv c+ Suppose you want to configure SMARTDrive to disable all caching of your floppy-disk drives and enable write caching on Interlnk drive D. (Interlnk drives, like floppy-disk drives, are not write-cached by default because it's possible to lose access to the drive before all information has been written from the cache). To do this, you would add the following command to your AUTOEXEC.BAT: c:\dos\smartdrv a- b- d+ Example: Saving cached information on the hard disk Before pressing your computer's reset button or turning off your computer, it is a good idea to have SMARTDrive write all cached information from memory to any cached disks. To do this, type the following at the command prompt: smartdrv /c You will not need to use this command before restarting your computer by pressing the CTRL+ALT+DELETE keys: SMARTDrive detects the CTRL+ALT+DELETE key sequence and automatically writes all information to cached disks before allowing the system to restart.
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