Chuck(G)
25k Member
Unless you have a need for larger hard drives or later DOS features, leave it alone. Compaq 3.31 was one of the "good" versions of DOS with many of the features of MS-DOS 4.0.
EDLIN sounds like...complete horror. I can't believe anyone would use it. Thank goodness for EDIT! Does EDIT run on older versions of DOS?
The Compaq has an MFM controller and a Winchester/FDD controller. What you're saying is it's impossible to use both at the same time?
Oh, and another quick question: the combo floppy drive only requires one cable. However, it has two drives. The cable also connects to a tape drive as well, but I thought one floppy cable could only carry two drive's worth of data. How can this work?
What's your config.sys and autoexec.bat look like?I installed the driver and MSCDX233.EXE, but it doesn't seem to give it a drive letter. Also, I'm looking in my Disk Summary with Norton Utilities 5.0, and even before I installed the CD-ROM driver, drive H: says "3.5" 720K floppy." When I try and access it, it says drive isn't ready immediately. The hard disk is partitioned C: through G:. I'm using the generic CD-ROM driver...could that be why it's not working?
Kyle
device=c:\xtgold\vdisk.sys 360 128 64 /e:8
device=c:\xtgold\vdisk.sys 2400 512 512 /e:8
device=c:\cemm.exe 2048 auto
device=c:\cache.exe 2048 on /ext
device=d:\norton5.0\pcshadow.sys
device=exdskbio.drv
buffers=30
files=20
lastdrive=z
devicehigh=c:cdrom\aoatapi.sys /d:mscd001
device=d:\norton5.0\ncache-f.exe a: -a b: -a
device=d:\norton5.0\diskreet.sys
@echo off
ver
prompt $P$G
path c:\;C:\DOS;C:\NORTON5.0;
@echo on
loadhigh=c:\cdrom\mscdx223.exe /d:mscd001
set nu=c:\norton5.0
c:\norton5.0\diskmon /protect+ /light+
c:\norton5.0\filesave /on
c:\norton5.0\image
c:\norton5.0\ndd /quick
Oh, and also...Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't do anything...is that something with Compaq 3.31?
Kyle