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From: David C. Jenner <djenner_at_halcyon.com>
Date: Wed Jul 1 11:37:18 1998

Yes, DRIVPARM does it for me on an old PC/XT where I have a
720KB drive. In fact, it's a 5.25-inch 720KB drive. Works great
with Teledisk for transporting RX50 floppies to uPDP-11s and
Rainbows.

Dave

Russ Blakeman wrote:
>
> Joe wrote:
>
> > I used driver.sys. It worked for me.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > At 08:54 AM 6/29/98 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Driver file? What driver file? You mean that's been my problem?
>
> Occasionally you need to add (or just use) the DRIVPARM= command in the
> Config.Sys, either by itself or with DRIVER.SYS. I reworked an Epson that
> wouldn't recognize the 1.44m floppy but it had a hi density controller. I guess
> the parameters for the drive weren't int he older BIOS. The addition of the
> DRIVPARM command fixed it fine.
>
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