(Although the message was e-mailed to me personally, I was asked to reply
to the list, so I did.)
On Mon, 31 May 2021, Eric Auer wrote:
Hi Steve,
That's what DRIVPARM is for. I used to use it on my old Tandy 1000HX
because the firmware, being XT-class, reported the A drive as 360K when
it was actually 720K.
Thanks! First hardware which acually DOES need it :-) I
think we do not have DRIVPARM in the kernel yet either?
Can't remember. I know I commented on issues running FreeDOS on a Tandy
1000HX, but this was literally 20 years ago.
DRIVER.SYS did the same thing but it created a virtual floppy drive with
its own letter, and when that drive was accessed, it had DOS ask for a
disk swap.
Are you sure? Maybe it just was for drives which were not even
reported as existing at all by the BIOS, but which were real?
It's actually why I used it back in the day.
Most of what one would use driver.sys for, honestly, drivparm made
redundant. But driver.sys was supported earlier than drivparm.
-uso.
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