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From: cur022@zodiac.ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help with drivparm setup
Message-ID: <497@zodiac.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 4 Jun 89 16:57:45 GMT
References: <241@syteke.UUCP>
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <241@syteke.UUCP>, jim@syteke.UUCP (Jim Sanchez) writes:
> I know this has been hashed over before but I just started reading
> this newsgroup a couple of weeks ago when I got this old PC/XT. I
> installed a 720K drive(3.5 inch) with DOS 3.3 and thought I would
> tell the OS about this disk via the drivparm operation in config.sys.
> Well to make a long story short, I cannot get drivparm to work at
> all.  I just get invalid command in config.sys.  The line in
> config.sys that I use is: drivparm=/d:1/f:2 which I think should
> tell the OS that I have a 3.5 inch 720K drive for drive b:  If
> there is something I am doing wrong I would appreciate any pointers.

Use the command:
      DRIVPARM=^A^A^A/D:1/F:2

where each ^A is the Control-A character (ASCII 1).