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In article: <uGHuBDAT61twEwFB@colsterw.demon.co.uk>  Robert Winstanley <robert@colsterw.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> Can anybody confirm (or otherwise) whether it is neccessary to use
> Smartdrive when running Windows? I seem to recall that Windows uses
> Vcache which is set up from Control Panel/386 Enhanced. Smartdrive would
> appear to be a duplication of effort *and* it gobbles 2Mb+ of memory and
> a fair amount of base memory.

This is where the second number on the smartdrv command line comes in.
ie., if you load smartdrv as:-

SMARTDRV 2048 128

Smartdrv will load, and use 2048k during DOS operations, but will turn
itself 'down', and use 128k when running Windows. Smartdrive, is
capable of cacheing CD's, but vcache is not (older versions of smartdrive
do not support this). Hence, install smartdrive, _after_ mscdex, and
use a command line setting as much, or as little memory as you want to
cache the CD etc..
If memory is very short, and you do not have a CD, then do not use
smartdrive at all. Makes booting a little slower, but will help RAM
availability in windows.
If you load smartdrive without any numbers after it, it will automatically,
use a lower amount of memory in Windows, but the amount will change
according to the size of your memory, do 'HELP SMARTDRV', to see how
much it will allocate.
If you want to be really 'flashy', you can load windows with a batch
file, that turns smartdrive 'off', for all the HD's, but leaves it
'on', for CD's, and removeable media drives if you have any, and
then turns it back on afterwards.

Good Luck

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