Hello,
Allow me to make the situation clear. The drive in question is a removable
IDE hard disk and is not a PnP device. The device consists of a drive with
IDE interface and removable hard disk cartridges. The problem with it is
that if you eject the hard disk from the drive and insert another cartridge,
the windows explorer is not getting updated. The explorer windows list the
files which were in the earlier disk, and any file operation on the drive
corrupts the contents of the new drive. I suspect that explorer is not
getting notified of a media change. But, if I replace the atapi.sys in
Windows 2000 with the one that comes with Windows NT 4, I no longer have a
problem. Also, with the original atapi.sys, if I disable the device and then
re enable it using the device manager, the explorer recognizes the new disk
and list the contents correctly. That’s why I asked about disabling and
enabling devices dynamically earlier in my posting with subject “Dynamically
disabling and enabling devices”. Can some one suggest a solution to this
problem, or tell me why the drive is behaving like this in Windows 2000 and
not in Windows NT 4.
Thanks in advance
Binu K. Baby
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State, INDIA
Phone: +91 471 527441 (Ext. 48), E-mail: xxxxx@nestec.net
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