Digest Articles Re: Disk drive shortcut by daloh@xxxxxxxx (Daryl L Hardes) From: daloh@xxxxxxxx (Daryl L Hardes) Subject: Re: Disk drive shortcut Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 20:34:41 -0500 References: <199810312310.PAA06479@xxxxxxxx> Doug - to use your new disk drive, you have to to activate: device=pqdisk.sys A minor irritation is that you have to reboot, which drops the clock-correcting software. So I wrote the following bat files to speed the switch both ways. Put the following files in the root of your A drive, including the clock driver software, OS$CLK2.SYS. Then when you want to use the disk drive, turn off the Poqet and connect the drive, being sure to touch the connector metal to reduce static electricity. Turn the Poqet on and type: disk (enter) That puts the right drivers, including corrected clock, onto the D: drive. Reboot and use your disk drive. To return the Poqet to non-disk mode with clock correction intact, turn it off and disconnect the disk drive, again touching the connector metal as you do. Turn Poqet on, go to A drive and type: nodisk (enter) Then reboot. Here are the files to write, saving as plain text files: (1) disk.bat has these lines copy config.dsk d:config.sys copy autoexec.bat d:autoexec.bat copy OS$CLK2.SYS d:OS$CLK2.SYS (2) nodisk.bat has these lines copy config.sys d: copy autoexec.bat d: copy OS$CLK2.SYS D: (3) config.sys has these lines files=20 buffers=20 device=D:\OS$CLK2.SYS (4) config.dsk has these lines files=20 buffers=20 device=pqdisk.sys device=d:\OS$CLK2.SYS (5) autoexec.bat has these lines @echo off prompt $P$G path=c:\;a:\ echo ref R1.05.1 lim-mc vna pqtools /n ver Of course, your autoexec and config files may have some differences from mine. For example, you might have "pqtools" without the "n", so pqtools loads on bootup. Daryl (daloh@xxxxxxxx) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] Re: Disc drive... by bertelli@xxxxxxxx (Carlo Bertelli) From: bertelli@xxxxxxxx (Carlo Bertelli) Subject: Re: Disc drive... Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 01:21:42 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >I have a disc drive and cable. What drive letter does it become and how do >you activate it? > >Doug Spreng Just hot-reboot your unit (ctrl-alt-del) and, provided you have good batteries inside, you will have an e: drive for diskettes. Cheers. Carlo BTW: would someone get rid of her poqet? I'll buy one if price is reasonable. Carlo Bertelli - Istituto di Storia dell'architettura Facolta` di Architettura dell'Universita` di Genova Stradone S. Agostino, 37 Genova (Italy) tel. 39 10 209 5835 fax 39 10 209 5838 e-mail: bertelli@xxxxxxxx