Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ariel!ariel.unm.edu!sorc From: sorc@carina.unm.edu (Paul Caskey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Floppy drive / controller woes Message-ID: Date: 6 Mar 90 05:58:15 GMT References: <2039@aipna.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@ariel.unm.edu Organization: The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Lines: 21 In-reply-to: jlb@aipna.ed.ac.uk's message of 5 Mar 90 12:16:20 GMT jlb@aipna.ed.ac.uk (John Beaven) said: John> If I start up the machine and do DIR B:, I get the contents of John> drive B: as expected. If I then change the floppy in drive b:, John> and do DIR B: again, I still get the contents of the first John> floppy, even though the light on the drive goes on and it looks John> as if the machine is reading it. ... This is a long shot, but do you have either of the floppies in question write-protected? I've had similar bizarre happenings like that on an AT and that was why. Don't understand why, so don't have an answer... -- /*********/ Paul Caskey pcaskey@ariel.unm.edu Only lawyers represent anyone's ideas but their own. /*********/