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From: strike@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US (Strikemaster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Does DRIVPARM actually work?
Keywords: drivparm config.sys
Message-ID: <1550@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US>
Date: 6 Dec 89 01:42:24 GMT
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thfisher@lion.waterloo.edu (Terry Fisher) writes:

>I have been trying to get the DRIVPARM command to make a clone recognise
>the 3.5" drive as 720K.  I keep getting an error message about an
>unrecognized command in config.sys.  Does this command work, or am I
>doing something wrong.
>Terry Fisher			thfisher@lion.waterloo.edu
>Waterloo, Ontario, Canada	{...}!watmath!lion!thfisher
>(519) 885-2785

   I have been told by several sources that DRIVPARM dropped dead with DOS
3.1. I have tried the same thing when I installed my 1.44 drive, and came
up with the same problems. I am now using DOS 3.3, my demented system BIOS
still thinks the drive is a 1.2 meg, and I just work around the mess with a
few kludged .BAT file for formatting disks. All drive operations run
normally, including DMA backup operations with PC-Tools 5.5, so there is
hope yet.

   All this is taking place on a IBM 286 clone, so the situations might not
be similar. Hope you get your problem cleared up. If all else fails, use
DRIVER.SYS and configure the 3.5 as an external drive. You won't be able to
boot from it, but at least you'll have it around for swapping files with
the PS/2 gang.
 
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