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  2. From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
  4. Subject: Floppy Drive screws up Hi
  5. Message-ID: <4560.1100.uupcb@satalink.com>
  6. Date: 15 Nov 92 11:42:00 GMT
  7. Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
  8. Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
  9. Lines: 16
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  11. MW>For some reason, whenever I am running Windows or Windows NT, if I start 
  12. MW>using the floppy drive, strange garbled lines start to appear on the 
  13. MW>screen, and the graphics in that region get totally screwed up.  If I 
  14. MW>move a window over these screwed up regions,  they get corrected once 
  15. MW>they get redrawn, but just running the floppy disk screws them up.
  16.  
  17. I don't know the cause yet, but I've seen it on several systems!  You can
  18. actually see the data being written to the floppy, obviously they are 
  19. mistakenly using the video buffer for their floppy I/O.  You'll also notice
  20. that if you don't touch anything, you'll get a good transfer, but if you
  21. refresh that area by moving the mouse or opening a window, you'll trash
  22. the floppy data that is being transferred.  If you ever figure out what
  23. causes it, I'd like to know. :-)
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