10 Mar
2005
10 Mar
'05
7:11 p.m.
>Does
driver.sys in MS-DOS do the trick?
Fred Cisin wrote:
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
No, but you can use a TSR BIOS patch (a
memory-resident driver)
The BIOS does NOT need any patches.
DOS needs to be patched, or provided with an appropriate driver.
And to answer the SPECIFIC question
>>Does driver.sys in MS-DOS do the trick?
NO, the versions of DRIVER.SYS from MS or IBM do NOT do it.
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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