Hello,

I have a floppy drive on a PC that is misbehaving in a very unusual manner. When the drive is accessed for the first time, it works perfectly.  But, any subsequent use runs into problems.  It seems like the drive (or the drive's controller on the motherboard) is somehow "storing" the directory structure of the first floppy it accesses.  For example, let's say I use floppy #1 with three files on it, FILE.A, FILE.B, and FILE.C, and everything works fine.  Then, I put floppy #2 in the drive.  If I look at what's on the disk, it says FILE.A, FILE,B and FILE.C are on it, even though I know it has something completely different on it.  Multi-disk installation programs always choke, because they're looking for a certain file that, even though it really IS on the disk that's in the drive, the O/S doesn't think so.  I've swapped out the drive (which was a hassle -- why oh why do they put the screws in such impossible locations?) but that didn't fix it.  Is it the cable?  The motherboard?

Have any of you seen a problem like this?  Any ideas?


TIA,

Art Frank
Manager of Information Systems
OHS Foundation
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