Path: utzoo!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!bmers58!mlord From: mlord@bmers58.UUCP (Mark Lord) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Disk Driver Formatting in Message-ID: <282@bmers58.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 89 19:47:59 GMT References: <89090607413782@masnet.uucp> <14789@netnews.upenn.edu> Reply-To: mlord@bmers58.UUCP (Mark Lord) Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 18 In article <14789@netnews.upenn.edu> catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu (Tony Catone) writes: >In article <89090607413782@masnet.uucp> jf.messier@canremote.uucp (JF MESSIER) writes: >>first diskette I read in this drive via aDIR command will have the >>proper directory, but any other diskette read later will give me the >>SAME directory as the first one, even if it's another. It seems that DOS > >By the way, yes, I know, running chkdsk each time is also a pain, but >maybe you can pretend you've got a CP/M system again, and treat it like >typing Ctrl-C ;-) The DOS equivalent to ^C is merely typing the drive letter with a colon and then hitting enter. This forces DOS to reread directory/FAT info from the diskette. Ie. type A: I do this whenever swapping floppies, to prevent DOS from getting confused. Most of the time it would not matter, but I do it anyway. -Mark