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Drives That Are Not Cached

SMARTMON.EXE cannot report cache information for a drive if caching for that drive has been disabled.

Network Drives

SMARTDrive does not cache network drives, so SMARTMON.EXE cannot report cache information for these drives.

CD-ROM Drives

SMARTMON.EXE version 1.03 does not recognize the caching of CD-ROM drives because it was not designed to do so. SMARTMON.EXE 1.03 was originally released with Microsoft MS-DOS version 6.0, which includes SMARTDrive version 4.0. SMARTDrive version 4.0 does not cache CD-ROM drives.

Hard Disks Using 32-Bit File Access

The 32-bit file access feature in Windows for Workgroups 3.11 uses a 32-bit protect-mode cache (VCACHE.386) that replaces SMARTDRV.EXE at the Windows level. When you use the 32-bit file access feature, SMARTDRV.EXE caches only floppy and CD-ROM drives. SMARTMON.EXE does not report caching information for hard disks using the 32-bit file access feature because VCACHE.386 has disabled the hard disk caching in SMARTDRV.EXE.

The only way to work around this behavior is to not use the 32-bit file access feature in Windows for Workgroups 3.11. You may not want to disable the 32-bit file access feature, however, because doing so causes you to lose the performance increases that 32-bit file access and VCACHE.386 provide over SMARTDrive's real-mode caching.