8 Sep
2003
8 Sep
'03
9:55 a.m.
>If your XT has IBM's BIOS, then you need to
add DRIVER.SYS to your
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Rich Beaudry wrote:
That did it! And a big "duh" on my part
....
The PC in question is an original IBM PC/XT 5160, and it has a 1/2 height
360KB drive, and a hard drive (10MB full-height 5.25" w/ XEBEC Controller).
There was a hole above the 360KB drive dying to have a drive put in :-), so
I added the 720KB disk (an original IBM part). The hard drive boots IBM DOS
3.30, so I gave DRIVER.SYS a try -- It worked first shot! Of course, I
could have looked in my IBM DOS 3.30 manual, but that would have been to
easy :-)
Thanks again!
The most critical test is whether it will now FORMAT disks properly.
The options for DRIVER.SYS, if the defaults don't work are /D:1 (PHYSICAL
drive number 0=first,1=2nd,2=3rd,3=4th) and /F:2 (drive type
0=360?,1=1.2?, 2=720k, etc.)