[Solved] Put in the first disk, do a DIR and see what is there. Remove it and put in a second disk and do a DIR and see the same contents. Reboot, and see different contents for the same 2nd diskette. USB floppy 3.5" 1.44, Connected directly to a USB port on the computer. Running MSDOS 6.22.
Solved by switching to FreeDOS. Be aware of the minor issue with FreeDOS format.exe = the /u flag is causing errors in the FD13 version. But one can do without it.
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waspentalive@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 1y
I think the first thing I will try is FreeDOS - It's newer.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I've never had that problem before. You might want to check your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files and remove any entries for SMARTDRV
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/25165/how-does-ms-dos-6-cache-the-dir-results
waspentalive@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 1y
I did not load smartdrv, I wanted to save memory for the parts of things that can't load high.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Ah. Are you loading up any other storage drivers that might do similar?
Have you tried removing the disk and running DIR without a disk in the drive, to refresh its status?
Have you tried running DIR B:
On a system with only a single floppy drive, both A: and B: actually refer to the same drive, to facilitate the ability to copy files from one disk to another using the same drive.
waspentalive@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 1y
No other drivers for storage only ANSI.SYS because I like a pretty prompt. I did not try and empty dir or dir b: but I did install FreeDOS which does not seem to have this problem