Disk Drive Won`t Eject #!?#!?

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From: jdm
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1987 15:22

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	My recently upgraded Mac 512E is having problems with 
the internal drive. Here`s what happens: 
intermittently a disk will not eject completely.
Instead it stickes out of the Mac about 1/8 inch, and there is
some mechanism in the drive which won`t allow me to manually
pull the disk out.

	Using the old paper clip trick doesn`t seem to help. 

	I have the feeling that its just some bit of metal 
slightly bent so the spring mechanism won`t release.

	Has anyone else experienced this problem? Any suggestions on 
how to fix it? My drive is still under warrenty, but naturally
they want to charge me for the labour of replacing it (at about
$60/hour!!!!) 

					Jim

			jdm@uu.warwick.ac.uk (UUCP) \
						     > until 30 April
			jdm@ubu.warwck.AC.UK (ARPA) /

			jdm@ut-ngp.utexas.edu          thereafter

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Subject: Disk Drive Won`t Eject #!?#!?
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Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 10:22:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 23 10:22:06 1987
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Organization: Maths Institute, Warwick University, UK
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Keywords: 800K Drive