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From: cook@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu (Thomas E Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: floppy drive problem
Keywords: floppy drive
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Date: 29 Nov 89 00:49:45 GMT
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I have a 1.2M floppy drive in an IBM PC-AT compatible computer. I
usually don't use the floppy drive much, except for backing up the hard
disk.

Recently, whenever I try to write to a floppy disk, I get a write
protect error. The disk is not write protected, and I am able to read
the disk with no problems.

I found that if I do a cold boot, I can write to the floppy (this
doesn't work with warm boot), but if I remove the floppy and try to
write to another, the problem returns.

Has anyone else experienced a similar problem? Does anyone know if there
is anything I can do to correct it?

Thanks.

Tom Cook  (cook@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu)   | ``The truth cannot be asserted without
1628 Spartan Village #E               |   denouncing the falsehood.''
East Lansing, Michigan 48823-5928     |   -- Leslie Stephen