Re: Reference disk needed for Compaq 286E

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From: Matthew Trump
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 00:00

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In article <803412101snz@michaels.demon.co.uk>
           michaels@michaels.demon.co.uk "Michael Salem" writes:

> (2) that the BIOS doesn't support 3.5" drives.
> 
> If (2), he will need a BIOS upgrade (a replacement BIOS chip, likely to
> cost silly money compared to the value of a 286). The actual change to the
> BIOS code is likely to be one byte (tell it to allow up to 18 sectors per
> track, not 15).

Could he not use Driver.sys in his config.sys?  See the DOS help for the
details.

I believe he could also use drivparm, but I could not get this to work.

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Subject: Re: Reference disk needed for Compaq 286E
Date: 1995/06/18
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