davison@bnl.UUCP (Dan Davison) (02/25/85)
Thanks to all who've responded so far. I wasn't very clear in stating the original problem. I get the above error message *when I haven't changed the disk in drive B*. Sometimes I've just completed a PIP and I know there is lots of space left on the disk. My suspicion is that the write protect switch is acting up because if I stick my finger in the drive slot and jiggle the switch, the problem *sometimes* goes away. And sometimes it doesn't. An alternative that occasionally works is to push the disk in and out of the drive a few times. I've had this happen earlier today, and had to shut the system down because I couldn't write to drive B, even after ^C'ing many times and rebooting (and cursing and yelling....). Is this a hardware problem or something in the bdos/bios (I think I've got the sources). Thanks again, dan davison davison@bnl.arpa, .bitnet ...decvax!philabs!sbcs!bnl!davison