Here's a puzzler for you!!! Can anyone figure this out, PLEASE?!

[Chappy]

I recently purchased a 733Mhz computer with and an A-Bit VT6X4 board. Everything works fine except the floppy drive. When I copy a file to the floppy, it shows it's there. I can even copy it from the floppy to anywhere on the machine, but when I remove the disk and re-insert it the file(s) are gone! How can these files be erased so quickly? I bought a new drive and cable and have installed that, but the same thing happens. I've never seen anything like this before. If anyone has any suggestions, please respond. I would really appreciate any input you all have to offer and, as usual, thanks in advance.

 

[Buddha Bart]

Try formating the drive, then doing everything over.

If it still doesn't work, format it on a different computer, then do everything over.

bart

 

[dkozloski]

Make sure the drive is correctly described in the system BIOS. Make sure the drive is plugged into the drive cable in a connector beyond the "A drive indentifier" twist.

 

[eeut]

i thought this symtoms works only in ramdrive.

 

[Chappy]

Thanks for the input. I've already tried the formatting route and that didn't work. I'll check the BIOS and the cable. Thanks again.

 

[Abj]

Try disabling write behind cache for the floppy drive.

 

[Howard]

When you remove the disk (just before the stuff erases), try putting it in another computer. What happens?

 

[road]

hey,
Make sure your floppy write back cache is disabled. Sounds like thats the problem here.

Peace..

 

[LordOfAll]

in device manager, under disk drives make sure that the removable check box is checked.