DRIVPARM LOL!!!!

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015, 11:05 AM Eric Auer <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi Antony,
>
> > CONFIG.SYS entry
> > DEVICE=[drive:][path]DRIVER.SYS /D:0 /F:2
>
> That would be for 720k A: drive hardware, I
> doubt that the user has such hardware.
>
> > may work
> > http://www.vfrazee.com/ms-dos/6.22/help/driver.sys.htm
>
> It will not work because driver.sys does not
> even exist in FreeDOS... ;-) You can indeed
> try the FORMAT A: /F:720 style as suggested
> by Mateusz. However, it does happen that some
> modern (USB) floppy drives and BIOS versions
> simply fail to support 720k disks properly...
>
> >> Those are 720K floppy disks. 9 sectors/track 80 tracks double sided =
> >> 737,280 bytes
>
> Regards, Eric
>
> PS: MS driver.sys was rarely used, but the topic
> was mentioned in 2009 regarding new mainboards.
>
>
>
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