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From: freewill@pawl.rpi.edu (Jenni L. Lexau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 1.44 Meg Floppy in IBM AT, drivparm
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Date: 2 Nov 90 08:43:50 GMT
References: <1990Oct29.195122.3957@ecn.purdue.edu> <90303.153059ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> <1990Oct31.182126.26984@idt.unit.no>
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After lots of frustration with a 1.44 in a psuedo-clone, I called
Microsoft tech support.  They said (as Terje noted) that while MS-DOS
3.30 supports 1.44 drives, the BIOS must also support the drive.  They
also said that drivparm was "a broken feature".  I asked again.  "Broken
feature.  It was a feature, but it doesn't work, so it's broken." :)
This was early '88.
   
Quimby
  
(quimby@rpitsmts.bitnet, quimby@mts.rpi.edu)