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Manish Malhotra meinte, am Sun, 19 Sep 93 16:39:13 GMT folgendes von sich geben zu muessen:

>  

> Hello, all.  

> I recently bought a 386 computer (used) and am experiencing a problem 
> with the disk drive - a 5.25 floppy drive.  
>  
> PROBLEM:If I do a dir a: , it will give me the contents of the floppy in 
> a: drive.  However, if I remove the floppy and insert another floppy into 
> the a: drive and again do a dir a:, it will give me the same contents 
> (i.e. of the previous floppy).  The light does go on, and it makes the
> rotating noise, so it does seem to be "trying".  However, if I reboot
> and insert the *2nd* floppy in, it will give me the accurate contents of
> the floppy.

This indicates that your drive does not generate the 'media change'-signal
that is badly needed to detect a disk-change !

>  
> Can the problem be easily fixed?  Does it lie in the disk drive or in the 
> p.c. hardware?  Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
>  

Dunno for sure, but maybe there is a jumper on your drives electronic, that
must be set. On the otherhand it is possible that your drive is not
PC-compatible :-(


> Thanks. 
>  
> Paul Gupta
> 510-528-0618

so long,
Marc

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