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From: brada@bardlover.Eng.Sun.COM (Brad Albom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: AT 3 1/2" Floppy question (Is this normal?)
Keywords: IBM AT, 3 1/2", floppy
Message-ID: <9678@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 12 Mar 91 21:33:48 GMT
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This is probably a simple question, but I just installed
a 3 1/2" floppy drive in my AT (sorry, don't remember brand
of floppy or controller). It works fine, but it seems that
whatever density disk it reads the first time after boot,
(1.44Meg or 720Meg) is the only type it will recognize 
until I re-boot. That is, if I first read from a 1.44Meg floppy,
there is no problem until I put a 720K floppy in. At that
point I get the typical, error reading from floppy message.
Subsequent read of the 1.44Meg variety still work.

Is this considered normal operation ?

-brad albom
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