Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!srcsip!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 1.44 on IBM-PC Message-ID: <13499@ncoast.ORG> Date: 25 Mar 89 02:06:36 GMT References: <6665@ecsvax.UUCP> <7957@chinet.chi.il.us> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Distribution: usa Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 23 As quoted from <7957@chinet.chi.il.us> by mpcook@chinet.chi.il.us (Michael P. Cook): +--------------- | However, I have *not* been able to get the whole thing working without using | a third party software driver (using Bastech). My understanding was that | DOS 3.3 or above with the DRIVER.SYS loaded should do it. It does *not* do | it for me! Anyone out there know how? Try your DRIVER.SYS from DOS 4 | before deciding to buy the software. It may work. +--------------- It won't. DRIVER.SYS and/or DRIVPARM merely tell DOS about the drive's form factor. You still need a driver; DOS normally uses the driver in the BIOS, which on a PC or XT won't know about 1.44MB disks. (Since a 720K disk is logically just an 80-track version of a 360K disk, the BIOS has a greater chance of getting them correct. It is, however, possible that some "clone" BIOSes might not work with them.) You need to add a driver to DOS to use the disk, or possibly find a replacement BIOS which groks 1.44MB disks. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser