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From: kevin@jarthur.claremont.edu (Kevin Fink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Question about flaky 1.44M 3.5" drive
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Date: 30 Jan 91 00:58:58 GMT
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Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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My Everex 286/12 has a 3.5" 1.44M drive which tends to confuse disks. After
doing a directory of a disk, it holds the contents of that somewhere, so
that when I do a directory of another disk, I get the old one. This extends
to scrambling disks because it thinks it has something else on it.

This sounds like a caching problem, but it still happens when I boot without
any caching software or anything extra at all. I don't remember what kind of
controller I have for it. Is there a possibility of the controller caching
the info and not clearing it correctly?

I can eliminate the problem by using a cache and clearing it before every
operation, but eliminating the cache entirely doesn't fix the problem.

Any ideas?

Reply via email would be appreciated.


Kevin Fink
kevin@jarthur.claremont.edu
kevin@hmcvax.bitnet