| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1433 |
| Total number of notes: | 10312 |
I've bought a cheepo 2nd disk drive.
It suffers from a problem where it sometimes doesn't recognise a disk
change.
I'm used to pressing the escape key at the desktop & the window
'refreshes' with the new files on the new disk. This sometimes doesn't
happen with the new drive. I swap the disk, I press escape, the disk
drive whirs & nothing on the screen changes. (I guess it's reading from
some chache.)
The worst thing is that if I don't realise it hasn't changed & double
click on a file (which of course doesn't exist) it can crash the
machine.
Any suggestions ? I think I remember reading about a 'force media
change' patch utility but I can't remember where. Pointers ?
Many Thanks,
Stuart P.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1133.1 | Try "dir/title=change" | YNOTME::WALLACE | Mon Jun 03 1991 11:24 | 3 | |
Have you checked out note 681 and it's replies? Ray | |||||
| 1133.2 | HAMPS::POORE | Stuart Poore, IM, STG, @BST, U.K. | Mon Jun 03 1991 11:35 | 10 | |
Thanks Ray, but 681 looked very hardware oriented & I was after a
software patch that was installed at boot up time.
My soldering is far to similar to by welding to do such small detail
stuff.
Maybe my mind is playing tricks, but I'm sure I read something
somewhere.
Stuart P.
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| 1133.3 | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeffrey A. Lomicka | Mon Jun 03 1991 12:44 | 2 | |
NeoDESK always forces disk change when you hit Escape on a window. | |||||
| 1133.4 | I found the FMC! | KAOA12::KOZLOWSKI | Wed Jun 05 1991 13:40 | 8 | |
Stuart, The "force media change" utility came from issue 20 of ST Format. Speaking of ST Format, it's a really good magazine, and I ought to subscribe to it, if I can! (It's 80 pounds!) Wojtek | |||||