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From: ben@val.UUCP (Ben Thornton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM-AT BIOS ROMSREFRESH
Keywords: 3085 Disk Manager
Message-ID: <378@val.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 89 23:39:48 GMT
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Organization: Video Associates Labs Inc. - Austin, Tx
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wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall) writes:

>Bull hockey.  DM is a standard run of the mill program that is used to
>format, partition, sysgen, etc hard disks.  DMDRVR.BIN is a device driver
>that has no value whatsoever since 'DOS 3.3 became readily available. 

This is untrue also.  DMDRVR.BIN IS necessary if the hard disk parameters
do not match any of the drive table entries in your system ROM bios. 

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