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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Problems with 720K drive
Message-ID: <28733@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 89 01:55:06 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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When I was considering a 720K drive there were postings about a weird
bug in DRIVPARM.  Basically, the options need to be prefaced with three
ctrl-A characters, for some unknown reason.  I tried that right off, and
the following line works fine for me:

drivparm=^A^A^A/d:1 /f:2 /h:2

where `^A' is the single character ctrl-A, or 0x01.  I never tried the
documented form, so I don't even know what problems might have occurred.

How anybody ever thought to insert ctrl-A's is beyond me...