jewett@mcnc.org (Rusty Jewett) (06/09/89)
I have a 1.4 Meg floppy drive in an AT 80386 machine (AMI Bios). The drive is a Toshiba. I am using a Western Digital dual hard floppy controller. Description of problem: boots fine off the drive, reads and writes to the drive. However, if you take the disk out, replace it with another, and take a directory, it gives you the directory of the first disk. (It doesn't reread the FAT area.). If you then switch to drive B, do a directory, and then move back to drive A, it then reads the directory fine (until you change disks). I have run PCTOOLS 5.1, and it won't recognize either drive upon initialization from floppy, but it does recognize the drives if you press <control>+drive letter (the usual way of changing between drives in PCTOOLS). In sum, it appears that the computer treats drive A like a hard drive. I've tried both IBM DOS 3.3 and MS DOS 3.3 with the same results. The device=drivers.sys /d:0 doesn't work. It only renames the drive to an external C drive (I havn't installed a hard disk yet). Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, especially a clue as to whether it is the controller or the disk drive. Thanks in advance, Rusty jewett@mcnc.org