On 10/4/20 12:16 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: >>> On SOME systems, you could substitute >>> DRIVPARM = /D:1 /F:2 for similar effect. > > On Sun, 4 Oct 2020, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: >> IIRC, in xDOS 3.2 and 3.3 DRIVPARM produced an error if specified as >> usual, but when DRIVPARM was suffixed by a string of three contorl-A >> (hex 01h) characters, it worked fine. >> Good ol' DOS arcana. > > THANK YOU! That provides some clues about the issue of BIOS, not DOS, > incompatability.
Beg to differ, Fred. CONFIG.SYS is processed by DOS, not the BIOS. In this case it seems to be a lexical quirk to keep folks from using the feature. --Chuck
