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2 total messages Started by st10t Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:18
drives
#841
Author: st10t
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:18
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	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
Re: drives
#851
Author: 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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