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From: rsj@wa4mei.UUCP (Randy Jarrett WA4MEI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 1.2Mb floppy don't recognize diskchange, HELP!
Summary: Check door switch on disk drive
Message-ID: <1412@wa4mei.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 88 16:08:36 GMT
References: <1761@erix.ericsson.se>
Reply-To: rsj@wa4mei.UUCP (Randy Jarrett WA4MEI)
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Organization: Amateur Radio Gateway WA4MEI, Chamblee Ga.
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In article <1761@erix.ericsson.se> bosse@eri-tin.ericsson.se (Bosse Sandholm) writes:
>I can't get the PC-AT to recognize that i have changed disk, if I give a dir
>command and changes to a new disk and gives a new dir I get the list from the 
>first disk.
>

Check the door switch on the disk drive.  Some of the older 1.2 drives did
not have the switches and dos uses this to decide if it needs to re-read the
floppy.  If you are using a used drive you might not have the switch or it
might be bad.


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