Re: Floppy drive / controller woes

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From: Paul Caskey
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 05:58

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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...


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