Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!jonh!jhenders From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: stdcat40.lzh Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 91 10:20:00 GMT References: Reply-To: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca Distribution: comp Lines: 29 X-Version: Martin's Mailer Version Sep 07 1990 23:50:52 In , charles bridgeland writes: > i'm having trouble with it though. i cannot get it to reliably read >more than the first disk that i feed it, and i trashed the directory of the >disk i tried to save to. > > anybody know about this program? what am i doing wrong? > You don't mention it, but let me guess. You have a mega, right? There was a while when the mega shipped with a disk drive that did not send the disk change message when a new disk was installed unless the write-protect switch was enabled. This will not be noticed if you have TOS 1.4very often as it was changed to force a disk directory read when a drive was looked at. There's a program called FMC which seems to reliably do the same thing if used from the auto folder. My dealer replaced the drive, but said Atari would not admit the fault in public, thought there was considerable discussion of it on GEnie. There have been several solutions on fixing the problem by bridging pins on the drive. Sorrry, but I don't have the info archived, perhaps someone else will. If all these questions which come up here in regular cycles were on the FAQ list, it would probably exceed the 44k limit on messages.;-) -- John Henders jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca MIND over MIDI Productions or ubc.cs!van-bc!jonh!jhenders Vancouver,B.C