4 Oct
2020
4 Oct
'20
12:52 p.m.
On 10/4/20 12:16 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Beg to differ, Fred. CONFIG.SYS is processed by DOS, not the BIOS. In
this case it seems to be a lexical quirk to keep folks from using the
feature.
--Chuck
> On SOME
systems, you could substitute
> DRIVPARM = /D:1 /F:2 for similar effect.
On Sun, 4 Oct 2020, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
IIRC, in xDOS 3.2 and 3.3 DRIVPARM produced an
error if specified as
usual, but when DRIVPARM was suffixed by a string of three contorl-A
(hex 01h) characters, it worked fine.
Good ol' DOS arcana.
THANK YOU!? That provides some clues about the issue of BIOS, not DOS,
incompatability.