[comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware] Summary: Help! Invalid disk change A:

khoo@husc3.harvard.edu (04/22/91)

Thanks to all the people who responded to my posting.  To recap, I was getting
an error message on my IBM PS/2 model 70, ocassionally, when I changed disks:
"Invalid Disk Change in Drive A:  Please Insert Disk # XXXXXXXXXXXX
Abort, Retry, Fail? "

This has been traced to a bug in IBM's PC-DOS.  They are distributing a bug
fix for it, called  DASDDRVR.SYS  on the reference diskettes (ver. 1.10 or
later) that come with the machines.

You need to put this file in \DOS and add the line:
"device=\dos\dasddrvr.sys"      to your config.sys file.
It doesn't take up any memory at all, and apparently fixes some other bugs
with PC-DOS as well.

If anyone needs this bug fix, e-mail me and I'll send it to you.

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khoo@husc3.harvard.edu      Lawrence Khoo       Computer Consultant
khoo@husc9.harvard.edu      (617) 496-8992    Econ. Dept, Harvard U.