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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: REPOST: IDE/DMDRVR.BIN Problems!
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Date: 2 Oct 90 14:12:56 GMT
References: <ABRAMS.90Oct1224441@division.cs.columbia.edu<
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In article <ABRAMS.90Oct1224441@division.cs.columbia.edu< abrams@cs.columbia.edu (Steven Abrams) writes:
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<The drive is actually 776 Cyls, 8 heads, 33 sec/track.  The closest
<thing in my BIOS is 744x7x17.  DM recommends you set up the BIOS as
<close as you can, without going over in any 1 parm, so I use this
<...
<After it booted, there was no config.sys in my root directory, but the
<Disk Manager banner came up as if the device driver got loaded.  And I
<can access the D: partition.  Well, I thought, this thing puts down
<one helluva somethin' in the Boot sector.  No matter, I put a
<config.sys in with the shell=comand.com /e:1024 (just to get a decent
<sized environment) and my mouse driver.  I also put the
<DEVICE=DMDRVR.BIN in CONFIG.SYS and copy DMDRVR.BIN into the C:\
<directory.  Reboot.  Set up my path and environment vars -- "Out of
<environment space."  Hmm.  Maybe DM takes up environment space.  I kick
<it up to 4k (overkill, but what the hey).  Reboot.  Same crap.  Hmmm.
<I also now realized that my mouse driver wasn't even trying to do
<anything.  It was like DOS wasn't reading my config.sys.  Or at least
<not *THIS* config.sys.  I reboot off of my DOS FLOPPY and the DM
<driver does not get loaded (as expected) and I look at C: -- THIS IS A
<TOTALLY DIFFERENT C: THAN I WAS LOOKING AT BEFORE!!!

Hmm.. my guess is that the number of tracks is messing things up.
Regardless, you should run DM /M and MANUALLY enter your drive parameters
on the appropriate screen.  I know version 4.01 of DM has this, and I think
3.3/3.4 also have the capability, though maybe not.  

Alternatively, acquire and use SPEDSTOR.  Good luck.
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