I sent this before, but it didn't show up on the list;
Part 1;
Which versions of DOS let you boot off B: ?
Obviously, NO command that you run in DOS (which would be after it has
booted), will change the boot sequence, which is before DOS is present.
Nor will such a change last through a boot
Resending
Part 2
BTW, for the parameters for DRIVER.SYS, you can abbreviate the /t:80 /s:9 to
"/F:2" (and later, "/F:720")
/0 was "360K"
/1 was "1.2M"
/2 was "720K"
anybody remember the numbers for 8"?
/d:2 meant you wanted the logical drive to use the third physical drive, /d:3
meant you wa
> anybody remember the numbers for 8"?
This is the official KB from MS on the topic:
Standard Floppy Disk Formats Supported by MS-DOS
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Article ID: 75131 - View products that this article applies to.
This article was
On 3/2/23 11:02, Ali via cctalk wrote:
>> anybody remember the numbers for 8"?
>
> This is the official KB from MS on the topic:
>
> Standard Floppy Disk Formats Supported by MS-DOS
>
Japanese MS-DOS (used on NEC computers, mostly) used 1024 byte sectors
in 8", 5.25" and 3.5" media. In fact, m
It is indeed strange that, MICROS~1 never seems to acknowledge the
existence of the NEC variant. And yet, it made sense to have the same
disk format parameters for three sizes of disk.
Unfortunately, the otherwise excellent table leaves out the lines for
DRIVER.SYS and FORMAT specifiers (if
Seems like it should be simple, but it is not.
I have a pair of Goteks with the Flaashfloppy code and each one has a
USB with 400k RX50 images on it. Both are set to drive 2, and a standard
40 pin floppy crossover cable allows me to emulate a pair of drives.
Now, I want to replace the RX50 dr
Chris,
I, too, tried a similar thing.
It mostly worked until there was a need to switch quickly between the
two drives (booting the diagnostics, for example). Then it worked
strangely.
What I believe may be going on is that the Pro is relying on the fact
that, although there appear to be 2
