27 Jun
2000
27 Jun
'00
1:04 p.m.
> The problem with using DRIVPARM appears to be an
incompatibility with the
> IBM BIOS, NOT an issue of which version of the OS!
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Sipke
de Wal wrote:
I'm not shure but couldn't this be
circumvented with "driver.sys"
It will take a few bytes of memory more than DRIVPARM but
it should work on any IBM-compatibe system including the ones from
big blue itself .
Yes, DRIVER.SYS will work. But it loads an entirely unnecessary device
driver into the scarce 640K real estate. It also puts the drive at a
different letter. While most people will not run out of drive letters,
some demented software (including certain MICROS~1 OS installs) refuses to
accept any but A: and B: for the floppy letters!
By running a BIOS other than IBM's, it is possible to use DRIVPARM to
merely set the drive parameters to their correct values.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com