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From: ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...)
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Subject: Re: 3.5" drive in XT
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Message-ID: <1991Jan06.025303.29181@hoss.unl.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 91 02:53:03 GMT
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In <3281@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> schikore@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dan Schikore) writes:

>In article <1991Jan6.000955.25624@portia.Stanford.EDU> shedevil@portia.Stanford.EDU (Annie) writes:
>>
>>I had this *exact* problem, and I needed to add the following line in
>>my config.sys file:
>>
>>DRIVPARM=/d:0 /f:2

>Anne,
>	Thanks, but, believe it or not, I tried this exact thing already.
>I get an error that says unrecognized command in config.sys.  I am using
>PC-DOS 3.3 and 4DOS 3.0, though I don't think that those will matter.

Annie (shedevil?  why don't *I* get to pick a neat name??? :-) ) must be
using DOS 3.2 or earlier.  Our friends at Microsoft/IBM killed the DRIVPARM
command in DOS 3.3, if my memory serves correctly.

Grab your DOS documentation and look up DRIVER.SYS.  It's a small device 
driver which replaces the lost DRIVPARM command (at the cost of a little
memory).  I think you use it much like the DRIVPARM command, as such:

DEVICE=DRIVER.SYS /d:0 /f:2

Try this;  if it doesn't work, check the manual and see if something else
needs to be done.

Remember, if you don't have DRIVER.SYS in your root directory, you'll need
to specify a path;  similarly, if you don't have it on your drive at all,
you'll need to pull it from your DOS distribution disk.
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