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Article #10224re: Resetting Floppy drives under Windows
From: Mike Robertson
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 14:33
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 14:33
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In article <2FaowB4w165w@comtch.spk.wa.us> davel@comtch.spk.wa.us (Dave Laird) writes:
>I have suddenly been visited with a previously unknown problem. Floppy
>drives no longer reset themselves after a preliminary access. I am
>certain that this is a changeline problem, but I do not know where to
>look in the config. Any ideas?
Hi,
I would suggest that you place a DRIVPARM statement in your CONFIG.SYS.
E.g if it's a 1.44Mb, 3½ " B: drive:
DRIVEPARM=/D:1 /F:7 /C
Where D = Drive 0 or 1
F = Form Factor, 1=1.2Mb; 2=720kb; 7=1.44Mb
and C = Change line support
NOTE: You will need to place a copy of the DRIVER.SYS file into your ROOT directory to enable this command to work
(BTW:This problem started happening with me when I included my floppy drives in the Norton NCACHE2 command line.)
I hope that this helps - Happy New Year,
Mike Robertson | DISCLAIMER: These are *my* thoughts & are
robertso@unpsun1.cc.unp.ac.za | thus not necessarily those of the Computer
| Services Div. at the University of Natal
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psgrain!hippo!ee.und.ac.za!tplinfm From: robertso@unpsun1.cc.unp.ac.za (Mike Robertson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: re: Resetting Floppy drives under Windows Date: 1 Jan 1993 14:33:12 GMT Organization: Computer Services, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, RSA Lines: 30 Sender: Mike Robertson Message-ID: <1i1kn9INNpha@lucy.ee.und.ac.za> References: <2FaowB4w165w@comtch.spk.wa.us> Reply-To: robertso@unpsun1.cc.unp.ac.za NNTP-Posting-Host: pc024.cc.unp.ac.za