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Article #15272Re: Disk Drive Won`t Eject #!?#!?
From: straka
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1987 20:12
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1987 20:12
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In article <420@euclid.warwick.UUCP>, jdm@warwick.UUCP (Jim Meiss) writes: > 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. There is a simple workaround (not a fix, but a band-aid until you can get it properly straightened out): Get the Mac to try to eject the disk. While it is just starting to eject, gently grab the disk with 2 fingers by the wide opening in the disk access slot, and pull (gently). This seems to work on a Mac in our office, and it does not put ANY stress on the disk or Mac. It's a pain, but will get you by for a while. I don't know what is binding internally. -- Rich Straka ihnp4!ihlpf!straka
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ucla-cs!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!ihlpf!straka From: straka@ihlpf.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Disk Drive Won`t Eject #!?#!? Message-ID: <1291@ihlpf.ATT.COM> Date: Thu, 26-Mar-87 15:12:04 EST Article-I.D.: ihlpf.1291 Posted: Thu Mar 26 15:12:04 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Mar-87 06:23:50 EST References: <420@euclid.warwick.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 20 Keywords: 800K Drive Summary: internal 800K disk ejection