I do have a built in floppy port in one computer.Perhaps I will try it on that one.Many thanks Antony.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Antony Gordon <cuzint...@gmail.com> wrote: > DRIVPARM LOL!!!! > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015, 11:05 AM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> 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. >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-devel mailing list >> Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > >
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
