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From: barbour@boulder.Colorado.EDU (BARBOUR JIM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: HP 9121 disk drives aren't working on HP 150s running MS-DOS 3.2
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Date: 19 Feb 90 23:22:40 GMT
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Reply-To: barbour@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (BARBOUR JIM)
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We have a lab of HP 150s used to teach MicroComputer architecture.  
The lab is currently runing MS-DOS 3.1.

Recently, we tried to upgrade the lab to MS-DOS 3.2 and found a problem.
MS-DOS 3.2 was unable to detect when we switched disks in our 
HP 9121 floppy disk drives.  This led to corrupted FATs and data blocks.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this problem?  We would very
much like to upgrade to MS-DOS 3.2 because -- so we are told -- we could then
write 3.5' floppies which would be compatable with the rest of the PC world.

Thanks,

Jim Barbour (jwbarbour@clipr.Colorado.EDU)