10 Mar
2006
10 Mar
'06
8:19 a.m.
On 3/10/06, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Can't remember if there's a way of doing this or not!
I've acquired a nice compact HP PC which I had plans to use as a data recovery
box - except that I've just discovered that the braindead BIOS only supports
one floppy disk drive; I need a 3.5" HD drive as the first disk and a 5.25" HD
drive as the second...
Assuming that the FDC will work with two (I've never heard of an FDC that
won't?), is there a way of telling MSDOS about the second drive even when the
BIOS refuses to acknowledge its presence?
If not, the whole machine's off to the tip... stoopid PCs, grrr! (actually,
I'll freecycle it, which is where I got it from, but the thought of it being
crushed makes me feel better right now)
DRIVER.SYS, isn't it?
device=c:\dos\driver.sys (parms)
In config.sys, where the parameters are the same as for the DRIVPARM
directive in config.sys, which tells DOS about the existing floppy
drive it can already see.
Not that I've tried this in some 15y or so...
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