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Ok thiz time it's a Txt file made for all ya by Nemesis of TCB!!!!
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This text is a number of simple hints for those who have bought
one 1.44 drive (1520k exactly!!) and still have some troubbles with it!
First of all the 2Nd external drive is usually recognized by the system
as one STANDARD 880K drive when you make a reset and you keep a DOS disk
inside your drive...( do this if ya wanna have a 880K drive for any
reasons...).
If you wanna have a 1.44 Mb drive you have to toggle any disk from your
1.44 mb drive and to reset (Sometimes you need 2 resets to have a
NON_INITIALISED drive!!!
At this time you must Configure this drive in order to be recognised
and labelled as an 1.44 Mb drive...
To do this you must modify 2 system files.. the 'Startup-sequence' in
the S directory... and the 'Mountlist' in the Devs directory.
In the Startup-sequence you have simply to add the following statement
at the start of it...
Mount df2:
...and then save it
In the mountlist instead you have to add many statements...
instead of doing this difficoult stuff I included in this .zip file
A cli-command named ... Mega2
you simply have to type:
Mega2 df2: 2
to have your drive installed...
you have to do this only one time coz the changes are permanently saved
in the disk/hd you are using right now!
(That's coz this command modifies the startup-sequence and the mountlist
in order to mount the drive 'df2:' all the time you boot from that disk)
Note that if you want to use another disk you have got to boot from it
and then reuse the command mega2 df2: 2 ....
For those who are interested there are only 2 differences from the
880K and the 1.44 Mb drives...
The first one is the number of the sectors per track that is 19 instead
of 11 (In fact to use the 1.44 mb mode you need High Density disks!!)
The second one is that the handler device is not the 'Trackdisk.device'
but the 'cgr.device' that can handle HD diskettes...
I hope this TXT is clear enought for ya and that all your troubbles
were fixed.... if it's not contact me at :
Temple of gurus : ++39-(0)744-302593 22-8 19200 HST (POWS)
My board name is 'Nemesis of tcb'.
BYE BYE....
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