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Article #19580Help: floppy drive keeps the information of previous disk
From: ZhongDong Lin
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:35
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:35
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I just found out yesterday that my 5.25" floppy drive has a strange problem: it displays the information (at least the file names) of previous disk rather than current one. Say for example I insert a floppy disk 1 into drive, and type dir a:, screen will display the information of floppy disk 1, no problem so far. Next I take the disk 1 out and insert a disk 2 into drive, now the probelm comes: if I type dir a: again, screen will display the information of disk 1 rather than disk 2. If I switch to dirve b: and come back, it works fine again. I really don't know it is the problem of the drive or the controller. I would live with it other than I can't install the game from a: anymore (it keeps asking me to insert disk 2 while disk 2 is in the drive). I bought a new game with only 5.25" disks, I really like to play it. Besides, this problem might cause some even bigger damage. On and on, help please. E-mail preferred, but I will keep my eyes open for any responds posted. My computer system: 486/33 with following: two floppy disks, a cd-rom, a modem, a sound-blast pro., a joystick, a mouse and a printer. Also my system is equipped with local bus (both video and IO), could this be the problem? Help! Help! Help! Brian
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!zdlin From: zdlin@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (ZhongDong Lin) Subject: Help: floppy drive keeps the information of previous disk Message-ID: <1993Jan23.183527.8983@news.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@news.acns.nwu.edu (Usenet on news.acns) Nntp-Posting-Host: unseen1.acns.nwu.edu Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois. Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:35:27 GMT Lines: 21