Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!emory!ogicse!uidaho!martyz From: martyz@groucho Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Floppy-drive doesn't "see" that i change floppy! Message-ID: <1990Nov15.180431.24982@groucho> Date: 15 Nov 90 18:04:31 GMT References: Reply-To: martyz@ted.cs.uidaho.edu (Marty Zimmerman) Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Organization: University of Idaho, Moscow Lines: 29 In article jc58+@andrew.cmu.edu (Johnny J. Chin) writes: > >krab@iesd.auc.dk (Kresten Krab Thorup) writes: >>Sometimes it happens,that my loppy-drive doesn`t recognize >>when I insert a new floppy.... > >>When I try to "dir" it, it displays the previous directory >>listning of that drive , and even if I `enter' the disk by >>typing "A:" I still cannot find nor execute any files... > >>BUT - if I run the chkdsk command on the floppy - it somehow >>initializes the disk, and the contents of this floppy is >>available! > I had this same problem and found that lowering the number of BUFFERS in my CONFIG.SYS corrected it. With BUFFERS=40, my 3.5" drive behaved the way you mentioned - it wouldn't recognize that I had changed diskettes. With BUFFERS=8, the problem went away. If you find the answer, I'd like to hear it. I'm sure I'm just covering up the real problem. -- Marty Zimmerman Computer Services University of Idaho or