Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihuxy!vg55611
From: vg55611@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Strange DOS problem
Message-ID: <2659@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 88 14:31:04 GMT
References: <1443@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: vg55611@ihuxy.UUCP (55611-Gopal,V.P.)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <1443@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncperson@ndsuvax.UUCP (Missing Person) writes:
>Last night I was looking through some floppy disks and at one point
>DOS insisted that the disk I had put in drive a: didn't have any files on it.
>i.e. : 
>Volume in drive a: has no lable
>Derectory of a:\file not found
>
>   When it told me this, it hadn't even spun the drive. It just kept 
>insisting that the disk(s) in a: didn't have any files until I re-booted.
>Anyone ever seen this problem?  My guess is that my controller has gone
>bad. 
>-- 
>Brett G. Person
>North Dakota State University
>uunet!ndsuvax!ncperson | ncperson@ndsuvax.bitnet

The closest I have come to seeing this problem is the case of a Hyundai
machine running MS-DOS 3.3 where the directory listing of the floppy on 
the 3.5" drive always showed the contents of the *first* floppy that was
put in it.  No matter what floppy you put in it.

The problem was solved by substituting the generic MS-DOS 3.3 with 
Hyundai-MS-DOS 3.2.

Venu P. Gopal
UUCP: att!ihuxy!vg55611
Others: vg55611@ihuxy.att.com

you put in the 3.5" drive, it was