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Article #851Re: drives
From: Jon Freivald
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 04:07
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 04:07
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st10t@Rosie.UH.EDU writes:
> Ok so I have this clunky old XT and one day it crashed.
> After I fixed it all back up and reinstalled dos, I realized that
> my computer thinks that the second drive (720k floppy) is 360k.
> Unfortunately when I bought the system they gave me the manuals
> for a 286 and hense it doesn't tell me how to set up the driver.sys
> to make the 2nd drive 720k. I never actually bought dos it just "came"
> with the computer. Soooo... does anyone have any idea or could some kind
> soul look up in their dos manual how to make my 2nd drive 720k?
>
> avi
>
>
>
in config.sys:
device=driver.sys /d:1 /f:2
to be able to reference b: as the 720, (assuming only 1 hard disk and no
ramdisk), in autoexec.bat:
assign d=b
this will allow you to "format b:" & have it come out a 720 instead of
having to "format d:"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utoday!jaflrn!jaf From: Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP> Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: drives Message-ID: <iZB3VB3w164w@jaflrn.UUCP> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 23:07:41 EST References: <1gs50uINNevo@menudo.uh.edu> Organization: The Wizzard's Cave, East Meadow, NY Lines: 32