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In article <1993Jan20.213619.19025@kronos.arc.nasa.gov>, chguest@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov ( Charles J. Guest ) writes:
> Okay folks I got one for you, how's this for an unusual problem:
> 
> Hardware: AMI 386
> Floppy drive a: 1,2 meg 5.25 inch
> Memory: 640+384  and 3 meg expanded on add in card.
> DOS: 4.01
> 
> I had un unusual failure last night.  I would put a 5.25 inch
> disk in drive a, do a 'dir' on it and get the information. I
> then put a new diskette in it and did a 'dir' and got the SAME
> information as on the first disk... problem was the diskettes
> were totally different.  Even the serial numbers on the diskettes
> showed the same.  This problem would go away with a power off
> or a reboot, that is to say it would now read the second diskette okay,
> but if I put in a third it would again show the same dir information
> from diskette two.
>  
> It would access files from the first diskette okay, but if I put
> in a new diskette and attempted to run a program known to be on
> diskette 2, it would not find it, seemingly because it still thought
> it had the first diskette in there.
> 
> The obvious question:  What the heck have I got broken here.
> 
> I checked for viruses with the new McAffee scan (99?) (97?) but
> nothing was found.  I was told possibly a bad drive, but I cant
> figure out how that would be the problem.  I am thinking controller
> card, but that same card also controls my HD, so I dont want to 
> mess with it if I dont have to.  I also am playing with the idea
> that it is something funny on the motherboard.  Ugh. Yea it was
> used, but an old QAplus checked it out okay before I installed it.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thank you. 
> Charles
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You may find that the switch that senses the change of disk is not working.  If
this is the case, then when you try to do a dir, the computer will use the
information that it took from the last disk access.  The disk will still spin
though.


Mark


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