Got 8" drive on PC working

[Fred Cisin]

> >>Does driver.sys in MS-DOS do the trick?
> Fred Cisin wrote:
> > 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
>
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
> No, but you can use a TSR BIOS patch (a memory-resident driver)

The BIOS does NOT need any patches.
DOS needs to be patched, or provided with an appropriate driver.
And to answer the SPECIFIC question
> >>Does driver.sys in MS-DOS do the trick?
NO, the versions of DRIVER.SYS from MS or IBM do NOT do it.




> to patch DOS
> into making any diskette work (it doesn't rely on BIOS but rather the actual
> geometry of the formatted disk).  FDFORMAT comes with a small TSR to do this;
> the once-popular 2M did this too.  2M even got into the Linux mtools
> (http://man.he.net/man1/mformat for example).  As for FDFORMAT and 2M, any
> simtel mirror should have them...
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