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Article #28765Re: Weird floppy disk behavior
From: Lee Dickey
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1987 13:11
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1987 13:11
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In article <11852@decwrl.DEC.COM> goldstein@delni.dec.com (Explicitly political) writes: > > My ST has been doing some very strange things lately. It used to > be that when I swapped disks (internal 1040STf drive) and hit "ESC", > the GEM file window would show the new disk's files. Lately, > though, it's been flakey. It might show _some_ of the new disk's > files (i.e., 25 out of 70), or it might show some of the new disk's > files alphabetically sorted with some of the old disk's files, or > it might work normally. > One of the STs around here is behaving in a similar, but different way. I have not seen it show "_some_ of the new disk's files". It is more like it being unaware that a disk has been removed and another one put in. I suspected a dirty contact somewhere in the drive. -- L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@watmath.UUCP UUCP: ...!uunet!watmath!ljdickey ljdickey%water@waterloo.edu ljdickey@watdcs.BITNET ljdickey%water%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.ARPA
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!amdahl!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!cbosgd!clyde!watmath!water!ljdickey From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Weird floppy disk behavior Message-ID: <1172@water.waterloo.edu> Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 09:11:24 EDT Article-I.D.: water.1172 Posted: Fri Oct 16 09:11:24 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Oct-87 13:17:06 EDT References: <11852@decwrl.DEC.COM> Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 22