No floppy drive update...

[Darklord]

I've got a spare STacy motherboard that I was fooling around with, thinking about
another (different) project that I might use it for and I'm having a problem with
the floppy drive.

This is the original 720k DS/DD drive, nothing special, no upgrade kits added to it,
or anything like that.

But...it reads every disk I throw at it just fine. It reads a floppy drive from the start
when I first boot it up but whenever I change floppy disks, it won't update the disk
contents unless I hit <escape> on an open window.

Until I hit <escape>, it shows the previous floppy disks contents.

I swapped out 2 other floppy drives and they both do the same thing as well.

I know there's probably a simple solution for this but I can't remember what it is.

Thanks all.

[exxos]

Pressing ESC is how I've always done it. TOS104 should update the contents. There is no mechanism I'm aware of to refresh automatically. That's just how it's always been.

[Darklord]

Pressing ESC is how I've always done it. TOS104 should update the contents. There is no mechanism I'm aware of to refresh automatically. That's just how it's always been.

Sorry, I (as usual) didn't explain all that very well.

Let's say I've got a floppy in, that was in when I first powered the machine on.

I open it up with the A icon. Contents are displayed. I close that window.

I remove that floppy and insert a different one, with different files.

I open that new floppy up using the A icon. It still shows the contents of the
first floppy disk.

With that window open, I can hit <escape> and it then re-reads the disk and
updates the window with the correct files. I hope that's clearer.

Thanks!

[exxos]

TOS104 doesn't have that issue.. But the media change fix can help.. That's built into my floppy kit.

[Darklord]

Well...it is a STacy. They came out with TOS v1.04 stock from the start.