Got 8" drive on PC working

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Thu Mar 10 19:34:31 CST 2005


> On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 20:43:03 -0600, Randy McLaughlin <cctalk at randy482.com> wrote:
> > Trying to use 80 tracks can destroy your drive.
> > STOP IT!!!!
> > You should NEVER use it to boot DOS unless you get Open-DOS and create a
> > driver for 8".
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Eric J Korpela wrote:
> Does driver.sys in MS-DOS do the trick?

The versions of DRIVER.SYS provided by MS, or in PC-DOS, do NOT have a 77
track entry.  But one or more of the MS-DOS OEM suppliers could have
created one; look particularly in V2.11 and V3.31



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