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Re: drives

#851
From: Jon Freivald
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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From: Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP>
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: drives
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 23:07:41 EST
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