Tincanalley
Experienced Member
Okay, this is driving me nuts. I have a couple questions about this program running on a 5150 so I can test a couple drives and about the drive switch settings.
I have the 256KB board with 2 360K drives installed. I have set the MB switches accordingly. I also have the external drive and I left the MB switches as is because any other setting keeps me from accessing the external drive. I did, however, use the Drivers.sys to assign the drive as C:. Odd thing is, the drive wouldn't work if I chose drive 2. With both and A: and B:, that takes drives 0 and 1, so the next in line is 2, but that wouldn't work.
Anyway, odd setup aside, it works. So what I want to do now is test 2 drives I have sitting here. I replaced my working B: with one to be tested. I then booted the machine and tried to run IMD.COM. It goes as far as bringing up the banner for the program, but then sits for about 10 seconds and brings up am error, "General Failure Error Reading Drive X". The "X" is any of the drives I run the app from, so it's not the drive.
Any ideas? Should the SW1 bank be set for 3 drives? If so, why doesn't it boot when I set it to anything above 2? Does it matter that the external drive is accessed using drive3 instead of drive2 as the DOS manual states? Shouldn't IMD.COM run on a 5150? If so, what could be interfering with it launching?
I have the 256KB board with 2 360K drives installed. I have set the MB switches accordingly. I also have the external drive and I left the MB switches as is because any other setting keeps me from accessing the external drive. I did, however, use the Drivers.sys to assign the drive as C:. Odd thing is, the drive wouldn't work if I chose drive 2. With both and A: and B:, that takes drives 0 and 1, so the next in line is 2, but that wouldn't work.
Anyway, odd setup aside, it works. So what I want to do now is test 2 drives I have sitting here. I replaced my working B: with one to be tested. I then booted the machine and tried to run IMD.COM. It goes as far as bringing up the banner for the program, but then sits for about 10 seconds and brings up am error, "General Failure Error Reading Drive X". The "X" is any of the drives I run the app from, so it's not the drive.
Any ideas? Should the SW1 bank be set for 3 drives? If so, why doesn't it boot when I set it to anything above 2? Does it matter that the external drive is accessed using drive3 instead of drive2 as the DOS manual states? Shouldn't IMD.COM run on a 5150? If so, what could be interfering with it launching?