NewDeal Technical Support Document 227
[system]Using the basic format:
drive a = 360 you have a 5.25" Low Density A: drive
drive b = 720 you have a 3.5" Low Density B: drive
drive c = 65535 you have a C: Hard drive
drive <letter> = <number>you can specify a number of possible drive combinations:
If you're having problems accessing your drives, first follow the procedures above. If that doesn't help, try changing the Wait Post setting. To do this, launch Preferences and click on the Newdeal (or NewDOS or GEOS) button. In the Wait Post Support section in the right of the dialog box, Click on the ON button to turn on Wait Post Support. Click on OK, then Yes. NewDeal will shut down and restart itself with Wait Post Support turned on.
If you still have problems, go back into Preferences and turn Wait Post Support off. Sometimes just the process of turning Wait Post Support ON, then OFF again will solve drive access problems.
Wait Post is a small optimization that comes into play when you're trying to make your system do a couple things at the same time. When the computer's BIOS notifies the software that there is a delay accessing the disk, Wait Post allows the software to suspend that task temporarily and switch to some other task, rather than sitting idle waiting for the BIOS. Then, when the hardware allows the BIOS to access the disk, the BIOS posts this notification to software, and the software then switches back to the task that is trying to access the disk.
In early versions of our software, Wait Post was the default behavior. However, a few computers were unable to support it properly and required that customers pass the /nowaitpost switch to the kernel. Therefore, we decided to make it an option in Preferences. If you turn it on, it is automatically disabled for the session following a crash, to allow you to turn it off again in Preferences, if need be.
DRIVPARM=/D:1 /T:80 /S:15 /H:2 /C /F:1or
DEVICE=C:\DOS\DRIVER.SYS /D:1 /T:80 /S:15 /H:2 /C /F:1An explanation of the switches follows:
DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\DRIVER.SYS /D:0 /F:2 /H:2 /S:9 /T:80This solves the problem. Please note that in /D:0 and /T:80 those are zeros and not the letter "o". The only inconvenience with using this driver, is that it automatically assigns a different drive letter to the drive. Please note that the DRIVPARM statement will NOT work in this case. DRIVER.SYS must be used.