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From: santerel@grad1.cis.upenn.edu (Walter A. Santarelli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Help! Drive troubles!
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Date: 13 Oct 89 20:19:13 GMT
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I seem to be having some trouble with my second drive and I'm
wondering if its just normal behavior or a real problem. When I
re-initialize a floppy in my second drive (CA880) I sometimes have
trouble accessing it. I can't seem to create a directory on it unless
I also copy files into the new directory. I can't seem to copy
Disk.info icon files to the new disk either. The drive access LED
comes on briefly, but when I remove the disk (after the LED is out)
and re-insert it the files copied or directories created are not
there. This only happens with single files like Disk.info or when I
create a new directory, as I said above. I also get this kind of
performance when I use the Iconed tool from DOS1.3.

First: Is this the way it's supposed to work?

Second: What are possible problems? (e.g. bad floppy, bad disk-drive,
virus)

I'd greatly appreciate any replies to "santerel@grad1.cis.upenn.edu".

Thanks in advance. B-)
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