Early 3.5" Floppy Drives

[Scott Stevens]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:09:03 -0600
Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:

> Scott Stevens wrote:
> > I installed a drivparm line in the config.sys file of a
> > true-blue IBM PC-XT just this morning with good results. 
> > However, it is a machine with a BIOS extension on the
> > controller card.  And it's running MS-DOS.
> 
> What does your CONFIG.SYS line look like?
> -- 

DrivParm=/D:0 /F:7 /H:2 /S:18 /T:80

I used a /D:1 for the B: drive.

It all makes sense when you look at the DOS 3.2 manual.  For
'ordinary' supported media, you use the /F: to directly cite the
drive types.  /F:7 is 'other' and then you spell out
heads/sectors/tracks.  If your DOS is 3.3. or newer your task is
simpler.

I used google to find it at work today.  The URL where I ended up
finding what I needed was:

http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14041.html

(I had to repeat my error from this morning to find relocate the
actual citation in google- I searched on 'drvparm' when at work. 
If you search on the actual keyword, you're lost in a sea of
results.  There are only 47 results found for the misspelled
'drvparm' but the discussion that cites the exact arguments to use
for a 1.44 drive in an environment that doesn't directly support
1.44M was one of the 47.  So voila!)