10 Mar
2005
10 Mar
'05
6:42 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
No, but you can use a TSR BIOS patch (a memory-resident driver) to patch DOS
into making any diskette work (it doesn't rely on BIOS but rather the actual
geometry of the formatted disk). FDFORMAT comes with a small TSR to do this;
the once-popular 2M did this too. 2M even got into the Linux mtools
(http://man.he.net/man1/mformat for example). As for FDFORMAT and 2M, any
simtel mirror should have them...
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Does driver.sys
in MS-DOS do the trick?
The versions of DRIVER.SYS provided by MS, or in PC-DOS, do NOT have a 77
track entry. But one or more of the MS-DOS OEM suppliers could have
created one; look particularly in V2.11 and V3.31