PC SWITCHES (was: DRIVPARM

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Tue Oct 1 19:03:00 2002

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Don Maslin wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Voyager wrote:
> > > Thanks!
> > > But, could you please give me more details on the ON-OFF and meaning? for
> > > example the 1,7,8 is for the number of drives. Up to 8 drives?
> >
> > FOUR drives.
> > Switch 1 was whether or not there were any drives (probably actually
> > whether it should attempt to boot from floppy), and 7 and 8 set how
> > many.
> > More detail than that will have to wait until sometime when I have the
> > technical reference manual handy.
> >
> > --
> > Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
>
> There is a small program, the PC Magazine System Checkout Utility,
> called STATUS.COM which should answer many of your questions as well
> as show you the "status" of your machine's switch settings. I would
> guess that it is still around on the web somewhere that google can
> find it. If not, I can email it to you.
> - don

It has one problem though. It is confused as to OFF and ON!!!

                                                - don
Received on Tue Oct 01 2002 - 19:03:00 BST