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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 3.5" on XT clone?
Message-ID: <74323HJW2@PSUVM>
Date: 4 Mar 89 22:19:16 GMT
References: <38129@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Penn State University - Center for Academic Computing
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In article <38129@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, holly@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Joe    lingsworth) says:
>I have an IBM PC XT clone running PC DOS 3.10, what do I have to do to
>be able to hook up a 3.5" floppy drive to my machine?
>
There is a way to do it in DOS3.2.  You can add a command line in CONFIG.SYS:
DRIVPARM=/d:1 /f:2 to define drive B as 720K.  Also, in DOS3.3, you can add
DEVICE=DRIVER.SYS /d:1 /f:2 /t:80 in CONFIG.SYS to define drive B as 720K.
There is a bug in DOS3.3 however, you have to use "format D:" instead of B:,
other commands will work fine.  This bug has not been addressed by IBM or
Microsoft but has been mentioned by some netters.  The solution is to put :A
(ctrl-A) in DRIVPARM statement make it look like DRIVPARM=:A/d:1 /f:2 and it
will work in DOS3.3.

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