I just put together my new computer and am having an unusual problem with my new Samsung floppy drive. If I make a floppy disk read-only (by flipping the notch on it) and then access it through Windows Explorer, the drive does not stop reading the disk (the light remains on and the grating sound is continuous). The only way I can stop this is by placing focus somewhere else in Windows Explorer, say the C: drive. After about 10 seconds later it finally stops reading the floppy.
Does anybody know what is going on here?
Some notes:
1. OS is Windows XP Professional SP1 OEM
2. Cabling is hooked up correctly (the twisted end of the cable is connected to the drive, with pin 1 to the left as seen from the back of the drive).
3. If I insert a writeable floppy into the drive, the above behavior does NOT happen! That is, the drive makes a momentary grating noise, the light comes on, contents are displayed and then the access sound and light goes off.
4. Accessing either a read-only or writeable floppy through the Command Prompt works correctly!
5. Tests were done with 3 different floppy disks that were known to be "good" virus-free disks tested on another PC.
6. I don't think a virus could be involved since this is a newly-built PC.
It looks like either the floppy drive is bad or an incompatibility exists between the OS/Windows Explorer and this brand of floppy drive. What do you guys think?
Thanks for the input!
Sanjay
Does anybody know what is going on here?
Some notes:
1. OS is Windows XP Professional SP1 OEM
2. Cabling is hooked up correctly (the twisted end of the cable is connected to the drive, with pin 1 to the left as seen from the back of the drive).
3. If I insert a writeable floppy into the drive, the above behavior does NOT happen! That is, the drive makes a momentary grating noise, the light comes on, contents are displayed and then the access sound and light goes off.
4. Accessing either a read-only or writeable floppy through the Command Prompt works correctly!
5. Tests were done with 3 different floppy disks that were known to be "good" virus-free disks tested on another PC.
6. I don't think a virus could be involved since this is a newly-built PC.
It looks like either the floppy drive is bad or an incompatibility exists between the OS/Windows Explorer and this brand of floppy drive. What do you guys think?
Thanks for the input!
Sanjay