Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!thyme!kaleb From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Format problems Message-ID: <1990Dec4.230807.2582@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 4 Dec 90 23:08:07 GMT References: <113@beep.UUCP> <1990Dec4.183016.13226@Solbourne.COM> Distribution: comp Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 34 In article <1990Dec4.183016.13226@Solbourne.COM> polo@hagar.Solbourne.COM (Dave Polakowski) writes: >In article <113@beep.UUCP> kris@beep.UUCP (Port'naybl) writes: >> >> Here is what I have on my XT clone's 3.5 inch floppy (720K). >> >> device=driver.sys /d:1 /c /f:2 /h:2 /s:9 /t:80. > ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ >Can someone tell me what these parameters do? I figured out that >/s: is the sectors and /t: is the number of tracks, but what about >the rest? Are there any others? Thanks loads. If you RTFM that came with DOS (you did buy it, didn't you?) switch function /d: Physical drive number, ranging from 0 to 127. The first physical floppy disk drive is number 0... /c Indicates that the physical drive reference ahs change-line support in the hardware. This means that the physical disk drive can sense that the drive door has been opened. /f: 0 = 160/180K or 320/360K 1 = 1.2M 2 = 720k 7 = 1.44M /h: Maximum number of heads, defaults to 2. -- Kaleb Keithley Jet Propulsion Labs kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov Good girls get to go to heaven, but bad girls get to go everywhere!