Hi, Arthur

I have so many of those problem with old Western Digital chipset Clone MFM
card with 1:1
Interleave, I guess some one shock floppy disk controller (most case reverse
cable or misalign)
symptom is exactly you mention in NG (ghost directory table), Please Check
with FDD controller
If new Mother board embedded with FDD controller, May be you have to swap
mother board.

Peter C.

Arthur Frank wrote in message ...
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
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