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My 3.5 drive works properly, unlike IBM PS/2's 3.5 which will format and
write 1.44 floppies even if the floppy has only one hole (DS/DD and not HD.)
It works fine with two-hole floppies, or second-hole-punched floppies and
gives me 1.44Mb.  I heard that there are such drives that have a switch that
will force writing 1.44 on DS/DD floppies.

Is it possible to set this in software, and not have to mechanically fiddle
with the drive?  I was thinking that the DRIVPARM option of CONFIG.SYS might
do it, but when I added the line to my CONFIG.SYS, I got an "unrecognized
command in CONFIG.SYS" error(?!)  Has anyone had this problem before?

For reference, I have a Packard Bell 286 machine, with Phonix bios, running
DOS 3.30.  The said drive is drive B.

This is my CONFIG.SYS file:

break=on
BUFFERS=11
FILES=20
drivparm= /d:1 /f:2
fcbs=16,8
device=c:\dos\sys\ansi.sys
shell=c:\command.com c:\dos /e:4000 /p

Thanks,
Erez.
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