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From: fisher@sc2a.unige.ch (Markus Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: DRIVPARM: unrecognized command in config.sys
Message-ID: <198@sc2a.unige.ch>
Date: 28 Jun 90 11:50:25 GMT
References: <1990Jun27.035428.27845@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
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In article <1990Jun27.035428.27845@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, ezk@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Erez Zadok) writes:

[fiddling with a 3.5 drive...]

> ...              I was thinking that the DRIVPARM option of CONFIG.SYS might
> do it, but when I added the line to my CONFIG.SYS, I got an "unrecognized
> command in CONFIG.SYS" error(?!)  Has anyone had this problem before?
> 
> For reference, I have a Packard Bell 286 machine, with Phonix bios, running
> DOS 3.30.  The said drive is drive B.
> 
> This is my CONFIG.SYS file:

[...]

Say, are you *sure* that `drivparm' is a DOS 3.30 command ?  My manual doesn't
list it at all (IBM DOS 3.30), and my on-line help system tells me it's a
`DOS 4.0 and up' command...

On the other hand, the string `DRIVPARM' *is* in my ibmbio.com... hmmm.

Regards,

Markus Fischer