Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!watdcsu!scarlett
From: scarlett@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Brian Scarlett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: drive problems
Message-ID: <6319@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 14 Sep 89 21:41:19 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Occasionally when installing software via an install bat, I find that the
directories for the floppies are not being updated.  So I get errors like
'that is not disk X you dimwit' when in fact it damn well is disk X.
I checked. (living on the edge, these are original orginals:) 

This happens on both drives and (so far) on 360 and 720k style disks.
Updating of floppy directories (all 4 types of disks) does not seem to be
a problem otherwise.
Several friends have indicated that this is a known problem
with an easy solution.  Only no one is sure what that solution is:)

system: 16MHz AT with A:1.2 M, B:1.44 M and 1 M on the mboard.  No clever
stuff in the config or groovey caching (other than fastopen and buffers
of course) and the AMI CMOS seems correct.


-- 
I nailed ducks to the wall                              B. Scarlett
Kept my heart in dark ruins                             U. of Waterloo
I built bungalows over the hills                        Waterloo, Canada
Dunroamin, duncarin, dunlivin.                          scarlett@watdcsu