DRIVPARM config.sys variable - how do I access it?
Oliver Kluge
kluge at lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de
Thu Mar 2 02:53:06 AEST 1989
Hi citizens of netland!
This is sort of a summary of the reply I got for my article about
the buggy operating system IBM still sells because I can't
seriously answer all replies by individual mail. I would like
to thank all writing to me ! Especially, I would like to thank
Mr. Guenther Ruecker from IBM. He was the only person willing
and able to help me, but his company's current policies prevented
too much of that. Thanks!
+ Keith Petersen (w8sdz at wsmr-simtel20.army.mil) sent me a patch
description from his archive (written by K. Macy) that would
cure the bug.
+ Harold Shapiro (hs0i+ at andrew.cmu.edu) wrote me he switched back
from DOS 4.0 to 3.2 because of a bad experience with this.
+ Steve Ward (ward%cfa at harvard.harvard.edu) wrote about the
number of the updated version Microsoft distributed, 3.30A.
+ Sean Patrick Gallaty (choke at m-net.UUCP) wrote that he thought
3.2 was the only version containing DRIVPARM.
+ R. D. Eager (rde at ukc.ac.uk) sent to me the most useful solution
of the problem: He wrote I should insert three Ctrl-A (01h)
in between the '=' and the parameters.
===> I T W O R K S !!!
Additionally, I found out that just * O N E * Ctrl-A is
actually needed.
+ Lee Fisher (leefi%microsof.UUCP) from Microsoft wrote I shouldn't
expect Microsoft to discuss IBM's IBMBIO.COM adresses. I have to
say, I * D O * expect Microsoft to do this. The first time
I detected the irregularities, I contacted my dealer. Three months
NOTHING happened. So I rang up IBM directly. They told me they
couldn't give me any phone number of a technician familiar to
such deep diggings. >>> They told me to call Microsoft, because
"they wrote it".
Of course, Microsoft told me to ask IBM, and so this would have
continued until infinity.
BTW, IS THERE ANY I B M REPRESENTATIVE, TECHNICIAN OR WHATEVER
FROM THE US TO GIVE A STATEMENT??? IS THIS A GOOD MARKETING
STRATEGY TO GIVE EXPERIENCED USERS NOT THE * CHANCE * TO
HAVE A * B U G * CORRECTED?
Yes, I see, DRIVPARM is an unsupported feature, but is that
good style to sell buggy operating systems just because the bug
is contained in an important, but unsupported feature???????
I'm very disappointed. In the past, IBM did not make such trouble
when I wanted technical details.
So long ... Oliver
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T U U M M Oliver Kluge, Parallel Computing Lab, \ unido.UUCP (UUCP)
T U M M M Technical University Munich, Arcisstr. 21, 8000-Munich 2, W. Germany
T UUU M M "Why stop now just when I'm hating it?" Marvin, the paranoid android
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