wierd floppy drive

[raindancer]

the floppy drive on my 5 moth old computer is acting wierd.I've only used it a couple of times and it seemed if it worked O.K.. Now when I put a floppy in it reads it as empty(blank), if I put somthing on the floppy it reads what I pit on it, but if I insert a new empty floppy it still reads what I put on the last floppy over and over. I tried to refresh it still reads whatever info I put on the first floppy.If i reboot it reads all floppys as empty(blank),even the one I just put info on.I am going to make a hard ware change and need the floppy for my promise controller drivers(Ihave a raid array) just in case I need to reformat. this seems like a windows problem but do I need a new floppy? heres the specs:
athlon xp 1900
asus a7v333 raid
2 maxtor 60 gigs in raid 0
windows xp w/service pack
geforce 3
soundblaster audigy
generic floppy
1 gig ddr2700 corsair
panisonic dvd
plextor cd-rw

 

[edfair]

On earlier systems under DOS this was a failure of the media change line in either the floppy or controller, or the cable. And teh solution was to log onto the drive and back out.
I suspect you could kick it in the right place by doing the same in a DOS window. I've not run into the problem lately, so I've no other solutions I've tested. Ed Fair
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[raindancer]

thanx edfair, thats a little over my head though. Just to make sure I explained it correctly whatever is on the first floppy that I put into the drive after boot-up is what is read on all subsiquent floppys,unless I formate a floppy then all floppys read blank.Thanx again

 

[edfair]

Put a blank in. STart , programs, msdos, a:, dir, exit, look at the drive again.
Try this whenever you change floppies.
When you log onto the floppy (move to a: from C it forces a load of the directory into the operating system.

Or a t least it is supposed to. Ed Fair
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