egray@fthood.UUCP (05/26/87)
I'm having trouble getting DOS 3.30 to load the 3.5" floppy device driver for my IBM clone (a Toshiba T1100+ w/ 2ea 3.5" drives). The new block device driver file DRIVER.SYS will only set EXTERNAL drives, not internal. For example, if my CONFIG.SYS contained: DEVICE=DRIVER.SYS /D:0 /F:2 DEVICE=DRIVER.SYS /D:1 /F:2 A reboot would setup devices D: and E: .... NOT A: and B: In 3.20 there was a DRIVPARMS directive that could be set in CONFIG.SYS that would load the correct driver. Running a DOS equivalent of the UNIX strings command on the new version of IBMBIO.COM shows a string "DRIVPARM" (note the loss of the "S"). Has the syntax of DRIVPARM(S) changed? Anybody got any ideas? Does anyone have a copy of the DOS 3.30 Technical Reference Manual? Emmet P. Gray US Army, HQ III Corps & Fort Hood ...!ihnp4!uiucuxc!fthood!egray Attn: AFZF-DE-ENV Directorate of Engineering & Housing Environmental Management Office Fort Hood, TX 76544-5057
brown@nicmad.UUCP (06/08/87)
In article <7000002@fthood> egray@fthood.UUCP writes:
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<I'm having trouble getting DOS 3.30 to load the 3.5" floppy device driver
<for my IBM clone (a Toshiba T1100+ w/ 2ea 3.5" drives). The new block
<device driver file DRIVER.SYS will only set EXTERNAL drives, not internal.
<For example, if my CONFIG.SYS contained:
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< DEVICE=DRIVER.SYS /D:0 /F:2
< DEVICE=DRIVER.SYS /D:1 /F:2
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<A reboot would setup devices D: and E: .... NOT A: and B:
We have the same units here and don't have any trouble with them. The internal
BIOS knows about the drives and fully understands all 80 tracks. We are
currently using MS-DOS 3.20 (Toshiba's version).
Have you tried using the 3.5" drives as is? Format a floppy and see how many
tracks it says that it formats (MS-DOS 3.2). If you don't have the latest
DOS, use CHKDSK on it, you should have 720K of available space. If not,
it sounds like you need a new set of BIOS rom(s).
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terminus-/phillip@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Phillip Lindsay CATS) (06/09/87)
in article <1704@nicmad.UUCP>, brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) says: > > In article <7000002@fthood> egray@fthood.UUCP writes: > < > <I'm having trouble getting DOS 3.30 to load the 3.5" floppy device driver > <for my IBM clone (a Toshiba T1100+ w/ 2ea 3.5" drives). The new block > <device driver file DRIVER.SYS will only set EXTERNAL drives, not internal. > <For example, if my CONFIG.SYS contained: > < > < DEVICE=DRIVER.SYS /D:0 /F:2 > < DEVICE=DRIVER.SYS /D:1 /F:2 > < > <A reboot would setup devices D: and E: .... NOT A: and B: > I thought the driver took next "open" slot since MSDOS already sees two drives out there. Instead of "DEVICE" spec. in the config.sys file I do this under MSDOS3.2: DRIVPARM=/D:0 /F:2 DRIVPARM=/D:1 /F:2 When MSDOS boots my unit 0 and 1 drives default to 720k (31/2) drives. ============================================================================== Phillip (Flip) Lindsay - Commodore Business Machines UUCP: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!phillip - Phone: (215) 431-9180 No warranty is implied or otherwise given in the form of suggestion or example. Any opinions found here are of my making.