dittrich@milton.u.washington.edu (Dave Dittrich) (09/22/90)
I am looking for a software driver for using a TEAC 3.5" disk drive in an IBM AT, with the standard AT floppy controller and the TEAC CS-235 5.25" adapter kit. I know that a company called "Bastech" provides such a driver, although I do not know how to contact this company. Any help (please respond by email) would be much appreciated. -- Dave Dittrich INTERNET: dittrich@u.washington.edu (206) 685-2438 UUCP: ...uw-beaver!u.washington.edu!dittrich Dept. of Chemistry, University of Washington
len@lsicom2.UU.NET (Len Rose) (09/25/90)
dittrich@milton.u.washington.edu (Dave Dittrich) writes: >I am looking for a software driver for using a TEAC 3.5" disk drive in >an IBM AT, with the standard AT floppy controller and the TEAC CS-235 >5.25" adapter kit. I am curious about this. Wouldn't it be cheaper and more reliable to replace the bios rom with a version that supports 3.5 inch drives directly? Len
kaldis@emerald.rutgers.edu (Theodore A. Kaldis) (09/25/90)
In article <7952@milton.u.washington.edu> dittrich@milton.u.washington.edu (Dave Dittrich) writes: > I am looking for a software driver for using a TEAC 3.5" disk drive in > an IBM AT, with the standard AT floppy controller and the TEAC CS-235 > 5.25" adapter kit. If you are using PC-DOS 3.20 or SOME versions of MS-DOS 3.21, you can include the DRIVPARM command in your CONFIG.SYS with the appropriate flags (which are the same as those for DRIVER.SYS). > I know that a company called "Bastech" provides such a driver, although I > do not know how to contact this company. If you can't use DRIVPARM, why not use the DRIVER.SYS device driver supplied with DOS? Put the following line in your CONFIG.SYS: DEVICE=<path>DRIVER.SYS /D:n /F:p /H:q /T:r /S:s where <path> is the path to the file DRIVER.SYS (C:\ if it's in root), n is the drive number (0 for A:, 1 for B:, etc.), p is the "form factor" (2 for a 720K drive, or 7 for a 1.44 Meg), q is the number of heads (2), r is the number of tracks per side (80 for a 3.5 inch drive), and s is the number of sectors per track (9 for a 720K drive, or 16 for a 1.44 Meg). Also, I'm not certain about this, but I believe that the CMOS RAM information has to be set to one less drive than is actually on the system. -- Theodore A. Kaldis | "Perhaps we may +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- | frighten away email: kaldis@remus.rutgers.edu | the ghost of so UUCP: {...}!rutgers!remus.rutgers.edu!kaldis | many years ago U.S. Snail: P.O. Box #1212, Woodbridge, NJ 07095 | with a little ex-Ma Bell: (908) 283-4855 (voice) | illumination . . ."