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- From: prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts)
- Subject: Floppy drive failure: help!
- Message-ID: <BswLun.JJB@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 04:01:35 GMT
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- I'm having trouble with my b: drive on my 386DX, running DOS 5.0 and
- Windows 3.1. What happens is, whatever diskette I put in the b: drive,
- it reads fine; but then the second and all subsequent diskettes in the
- drive do not get read. The dir command just keeps returning the
- directory of that first diskette. Among other things, this makes it
- impossible to install software from the b drive, since after the first
- diskette, the installation program keeps thinking I have the wrong
- diskettes in the drive.
- I thought perhaps this was some kind of high-memory conflict, as I am
- running emm386 (the one that comes with DOS 5.0) to manage high memory.
- I tried changing the include and exclude statements, removing them, even
- remarking out the config.sys line with emm386 altogether - but no
- change.
- Any suggestions? DO I just have defective BIOS, maybe? No troubles with
- the a: drive or hard drive access, just b:.
-
- Any help appreciated....
-
- Paul Botts
- prb@chinet.chi.il.us
-