schikore@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dan Schikore) (01/06/91)
I just put a 720K 3.5" drive in my XT, which previously had 2 360K 5.25" drives. It still thinks that the drive has only 40 tracks. I am able to format disks to full capacity using a special formatting program, which warns me that I may do damage to the drive because I am trying to format too many tracks. I can read the disks fine, and would just like to find some kind of driver that would let my computer recognize that the disk does have 80 tracks. Is something like this available? Thanks, Dan Schikore schikore@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
shedevil@portia.Stanford.EDU (Annie) (01/06/91)
Dan...
I had this *exact* problem, and I needed to add the following line in
my config.sys file:
DRIVPARM=/d:0 /f:2
This was for my 3.5 as my 'a' drive.
I'm not positive, but I think it would be DRIVPARM=/d:1 /f:2
if your 3.5 is your 'b' drive.
Annie
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would ever accuse anyone else of having these opinions anyway!schikore@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dan Schikore) (01/06/91)
In article <1991Jan6.000955.25624@portia.Stanford.EDU> shedevil@portia.Stanford.EDU (Annie) writes: > >Dan... > >I had this *exact* problem, and I needed to add the following line in >my config.sys file: > >DRIVPARM=/d:0 /f:2 Anne, Thanks, but, believe it or not, I tried this exact thing already. I get an error that says unrecognized command in config.sys. I am using PC-DOS 3.3 and 4DOS 3.0, though I don't think that those will matter. Does anyone know why this won't work on my computer? Thanks, -Dan Schikore schikore@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) (01/06/91)
In <3281@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> schikore@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dan Schikore) writes: >In article <1991Jan6.000955.25624@portia.Stanford.EDU> shedevil@portia.Stanford.EDU (Annie) writes: >> >>I had this *exact* problem, and I needed to add the following line in >>my config.sys file: >> >>DRIVPARM=/d:0 /f:2 >Anne, > Thanks, but, believe it or not, I tried this exact thing already. >I get an error that says unrecognized command in config.sys. I am using >PC-DOS 3.3 and 4DOS 3.0, though I don't think that those will matter. Annie (shedevil? why don't *I* get to pick a neat name??? :-) ) must be using DOS 3.2 or earlier. Our friends at Microsoft/IBM killed the DRIVPARM command in DOS 3.3, if my memory serves correctly. Grab your DOS documentation and look up DRIVER.SYS. It's a small device driver which replaces the lost DRIVPARM command (at the cost of a little memory). I think you use it much like the DRIVPARM command, as such: DEVICE=DRIVER.SYS /d:0 /f:2 Try this; if it doesn't work, check the manual and see if something else needs to be done. Remember, if you don't have DRIVER.SYS in your root directory, you'll need to specify a path; similarly, if you don't have it on your drive at all, you'll need to pull it from your DOS distribution disk. -- ... Michael Ho, University of Nebraska Internet: ho@hoss.unl.edu | "Mine... is the last voice that you will ever hear." Disclaimer: I ain't CRC, I ain't the DN, and they ain't me. What a relief.
schikore@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Schikore) (01/06/91)
Thanks for all the replies that I have recieved. There were many suggestions such as DRIVPARM and DRIVER.SYS, BIOS upgrade, a new controller, etc. I tried using DRIVER.SYS, but it does not work exactly like DRIVPARM, and instead uses the next available drive, which I did not like. This would work, but then I would have to refer to this drive as e: in order to format it. Finally I revieved an excellent tip that I can use DRIVPARM with PC-DOS 3.3 by adding a control-a after the = sign in my config.sys: DRIVPARM=^A/d:1 /f:2 Thanks for all the suggestions. -Dan Schikore schikore@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
shedevil@portia.Stanford.EDU (Annie) (01/07/91)
In article <3286@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> schikore@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dan Schikore) writes: >I revieved an excellent tip that I can use DRIVPARM with PC-DOS 3.3 by adding >a control-a after the = sign in my config.sys: > >DRIVPARM=^A/d:1 /f:2 Actually I've heard of this fluke, but I'd heard that it requires *4* ^A's in a row. Did it work?? -- <*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*> Anne (She Devil) Mitchell - Stanford Law - BBS: 415-497-5291,1200,N,8,1 No disclaimer necessary as this is *my* account, and besides - nobody would ever accuse anyone else of having these opinions anyway!