Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!boulder!seri!wind55!marshall From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Floppy drive / controller woes Message-ID: <1990Mar6.194336.3457@seri.gov> Date: 6 Mar 90 19:43:36 GMT References: <2039@aipna.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@seri.gov (news [NO CHARGE]) Organization: Solar Energy Research Institute Lines: 26 sorc@carina.unm.edu (Paul Caskey) writes: >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... I once released a floppy while it was being used. I got the standard (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail message, swapped floppies and told it to retry. The PC finished writing to the new disk and wrote the updated directory of the original disk onto the second disk. This is probably a long shot too, but maybe... -- Marshall L. Buhl, Jr. EMAIL: marshall@wind55.seri.gov Senior Computer Engineer VOICE: (303)231-1014 Wind Research Branch 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393 Solar Energy Research Institute Solar - safe energy for a healthy future