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- This program will increase your floppy drive performance up to 500%. It
- uses the BIOS int 13h. Place floppyDRIVER in drive A: then type
- FDINSTAL. The file FD.COM will be placed in the root directory of your
- boot disk. The line FD/LOAD will be added to your autoexec.bat file.
- You can place FD.COM to another directory, but remember to change your
- autoexec.bat to reflect its location. Access the FloppyDRIVER menu
- by typing FD<CR>. There are the following commands.
-
- FD Displays the command menu.
- FD /LOAD Causes FloppyDRIVER to be loaded into memory (if not already
- there).
- FD /UNLOAD Removes FloppyDRIVER from memory
- FD /LOAD /SMALL Loads a small version of FloppyDRIVER. 25K
- FD /LOAD /XSMALL Loads an xtra small version. 18K
- FD /LOAD /HOTKEY key1 key2 Loads the menu along with FloppyDRIVER
- so it becomes accessable via a hotkey.
- FD /HOTKEY key1 key2 Changes the hotkey to a different keyboard combination.
- (FloppyDRIVER must have been loaded with the /HOTKEY
- FD /COLOR ON or FD /COLOR Csuses the menu to be displayed in color. Th g stays in effect until canc
- eled.
- FD /COLOR OFF Turns the color off
- FD /ALARM OFF Disables the door alarm.
- FD /ALARM ON or FD /ALARM Enables the door alarm
- FD /AUTOFORMAT ON or FD /AUTOFORMAT Enables auto format
- FD /AUTOFORMAT OFF Turns off the autoformat feature
- FD /FLUSH Waits for all diskette operations to complete the turns off the drive motors.
- FD /OFF Leaves FloppyDRIVER loaded, but disabled.
- FD /OFF n Tirns FloppyDRIVER off for N seconds.
- FD /ON Re-enables FloppyDRIVER.
- FD /FORMAT d media_type IMMEDIATELY formats the diskette in Drive 'd'.
- FD /FORMAT d media_type /BACKGROUND IMMEDIATELY begins formating "d" then exits while the
- format operation completes in the backgroun d.
-
-
- I do not know how well this program will work on DOS 4.00. It seems to work fine on 3.2. I have heard that it has given 4.0
- users some trouble. If I get an answer I will let you all know.
-