Unable To Write To A Floppy Disk Drive

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:30:35 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: Files could not be written to the A: drive, but files could be read from it. Files could be written to and read from drive B: with no problem. Solutions: The computer's A: drive was defective. After replacing the A: drive, the problem no longer occurred. How/Why: IBM's 3.5" floppy drive uses an optical sensor to check the write-protect window. The optical sensor had failed, so all diskettes appeared to be write-protected when they actually were not.

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