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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Weird floppy disk behavior
Message-ID: <1172@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 09:11:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: water.1172
Posted: Fri Oct 16 09:11:24 1987
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In article <11852@decwrl.DEC.COM> goldstein@delni.dec.com (Explicitly political) writes:
>
>    My ST has been doing some very strange things lately.  It used to
>    be that when I swapped disks (internal 1040STf drive) and hit "ESC",
>    the GEM file window would show the new disk's files.  Lately,
>    though, it's been flakey.  It might show _some_ of the new disk's
>    files (i.e., 25 out of 70), or it might show some of the new disk's
>    files alphabetically sorted with some of the old disk's files, or
>    it might work normally.
>    

One of the STs around here is behaving in a similar, but different way.
I have not seen it show "_some_ of the new disk's files".
It is more like it being unaware that a disk has been removed and
another one put in.  I suspected a dirty contact somewhere in the drive.


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