Re: Odd floppy drive behavior

From: Stephen Harris (stephen.p.harris_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 11:51:20 GMT

"Stephen Harris" <stephen.p.harris@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1Q2Rc.1431$MU2.35@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com...
> I downloaded a small file and saved it directly to the floppy drive
> and later removed the floppy.
>
> Later, I decided to download a larger file... Uusually there is a
> dialogue about where you want to save the file.
>
> No such dialogue occurred. The floppy drive was buzzed
> for at least 30 seconds before I cancelled the download
> with Ctrl-Alt-Delete. This happened at different sites and
> with different files. The buzzing even went into high gear.
> By buzzing, I mean the green light comes on and the drive
> is checked which typically produces a distinctive noise.
> It seemed like the process was stuck on detecting the floppy.
>
> Finally, I reinserted a disk into the floppy which brought
> up the download file dialogue. At first attempt, it would not
> let me change the location of where the downloaded file
> would be stored. The second time it allowed me normal
> options of where to store the download file (disk inserted).
>
> I have win xp pro with sp1 and all the updates.
> Does anyone else experience duplicate behavior?
>
> Regards,
> Stephen
>

I just tested it again and the same problem repeated.
This time I fixed it less dramatically than ctrl-alt-delete;
I just inserted a floppy. Then it came up with an error
message somethink like "the disk in drive A is not formatted"
This is the same disk I just downloaded a file to.

So I responded no. Then I was presented the normal
screen for choosing download locations. Moving on
from choosing the default download location is broken
when the previous file download location is the A: drive.
The process gets stuck on the floppy drive. Again I
have installed all the updates and sp1 for win xp pro.
I ran ad-aware and spybot previous to this experiment
and I have real-time updated defintions for virus protection.
This is not that old-time win95 floppy random access problem.

Another major annoyance is that one has to actually download
a file to a different location in order to clear the floppy drive
default overkill buzz (doesn't stop without intervention AFAIK).
The problem does not extend to a different folder download
choice on the C: drive, just the A: drive.

Regards,
Stephen

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