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>At 5/15/2002 09:14 PM, AMD950 wrote:
>
>>Well today, I needed to pull some old MS Works files off a very old floppy
>>(early win95 days).  When I read the floppy, it showed the contents of the
>>above-mentioned bootdisk!  Refreshing did not help.   No matter what floppy
>>I now place in drive, same thing occurs.  Ran virus check on system &
>>floppy, and nothing was detected.


At 03:47 PM 5/17/2002 -0400, Doug Replied:

>This can happen when the "Detect Disk Change" sensor is not working on the
>floppy.  The index of a floppy is read into cache memory when a disk is
>first accessed and subsequent accesses to the floppy use the cached
>index.
>Doug



Thanks for the reply Doug.  You hit it right on the button for PC1.  But,
recall that after reading original offending bootdisk disk on PC2, ( btw,
the FD seems to be fine; unless it's something intermittent), the cached
data appeared to have been written to another floppy disk (which contained
much needed files).  I say appeared because when opening up any file on the
needed floppy, the data seems either corrupted, or could actually be the db
files that were orignally on this floppy.  BTW, tried reading said files
with various originally associated apps, all to no avail.


Ian Carmichael



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