Program : 4FLOPPY.COM Description : The 4FLOPPY.COM program is a Floppy Disk Device Driver which allows you to configure your system to operate with up to four floppy disk drives. 4FLOPPY.COM is a user loadable device driver which is loaded from the DOS command line prompt or may be included in your autoexec.bat file. Syntax : [drive:][path]4FLOPPY w x y z [drive:][path] Defines the location of the 4FLOPPY.COM file. w Defines physical drive 0 (A:) x Defines physical drive 1 (B:) y Defines physical drive 2 (letter assigned by DOS) z Defines physical drive 3 (letter assigned by DOS) w,x,y,z: 0 = no drive installed. 1 = 5.25" 360KB FDD. 2 = 5.25" 1.2MB FDD. 3 = 3.5" 720K FDD. 4 = 3.5" 1.44MB FDD. 5 = 3.5" 2.88MB FDD. Example : Consider that your system is currently equipped with two Floppy disk drives (A: = 3.5" 720K & B: = 5.25" 360KB). Also consider that your system has a Hard drive which is partitioned into two logical drives (C: & D:). You wish to add two additional drives to your system (Drive 2 = 3.5" 2.88MB & Drive 3 = 5.25" 1.2MB). First set up the hardware by setting the drive switches such that drive 2 = DS1 and drive 3 = DS1 (with terminating resistors), then attach the second floppy drive cable (with twist) between your 661 demo board and two new drives, and lastly connect system power to each drive. In order that DOS may set up the proper resources at Boot Time it is also necessary to include, in your CONFIG.SYS, commands which load the DOS DRIVER.SYS device driver. Assuming that the DRIVER.SYS is located in the C:\DOS directory include the following two commands in your CONFIG.SYS file: DEVICE = C:\DOS\DRIVER.SYS /D:2 /F:9 DEVICE = C:\DOS\DRIVER.SYS /D:3 /F:1 The first command line assigns the next available logical drive (E:) to the third physical Floppy Drive while the second line assigns logical drive (F:) to the fourth physical Floppy Drive. ,---------------------------------------------------, | NOW REBOOT (HARD OR SOFT) YOUR SYSTEM !!! | '---------------------------------------------------' Assuming that you have copied the 4FLOPPY.COM file to the C:\DRIVER directory either include the following command in your autoexec.bat file or type it at the DOS prompt after your system has booted: C:\DRIVER\4FLOPPY 3 1 5 2 This will load the 4FLOPPY device driver and set it to properly communicate with the four physical drives that you have installed in your system. A: will be accessed as a 3.5" 720KB FDD. B: will be accessed as a 5.25" 360KB FDD. C: will be accessed as a 3.5" 2.88MB FDD. D: will be accessed as a 5.25" 1.2MB FDD.