Diskette swap unrecognised

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I have a desktop machine using an L7VTA motherboard and Award Bios,
and for some reason it fails to recognise that a different diskette is
in the drive if I ever swap floppies.

I sometimes run Partition Magic and Drive Image for maintenance work,
and in each case the software is on two floppy diskettes. I boot from
the first, and at the point where I'm asked to swap diskettes, and do
so, the Autoexec.Bat file fails.

At this point I'm in DOS and I bypass the problem by typing B: and
then Enter to the resulting prompt, followed by the appropriate
command to start either Partition Magic or Drive Image.

I've looked at the Bios options and nothing looks as though it woould
produce this behaviour, I can live with it, but it would be
interesting to know what and where the proble is. Any ideas anyone ?

Steve

 

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In article <koftu05fs3rv5lcskulctm7ldhemp0oqls@4ax.com>, Steve Webb
<steve@webbsfamily.freeserve.co.uk> writes

>I have a desktop machine using an L7VTA motherboard and Award Bios,
>and for some reason it fails to recognise that a different diskette is
>in the drive if I ever swap floppies.

pin 34 in the floppy ribbon cable is the disk change line. As it's at
one edge of the cable (furthest from the one with the stripe), it's
prone to damage caused by shorting/cutting on sharp case edges or by
pulling on the cable to disconnect it.

Try changing the cable as a first step and check the drive and
motherboard header pins are okay and none are bent.

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