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In article <1992Dec30.201547.21564@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>  
andrew@uaneuro.uah.ualberta.ca (Andrew Penn) writes:

I have a floppy disc entombed in my Station running 3.0 curtesy of  
SoftPC 2.0. Can someone tell me how to get it out?

Andrew Penn
E-Mail:		andrew@uaneuro.uah.ualberta.ca

I tried to respond via E-mail, but it bounced.
I had the EXACT same problem earlier this month.  Here's my solution:
	Get to the ROM monitor by pressing the ~ key (without  
pressing Shift) while holding 	down the Command bar (hold down both  
Command keys on keyboards that have 	two). When you see the "nmi>"  
prompt, type monitor.

	At the "NeXT>" prompt, type ef for eject floppy.  Once you  
get your diskette back, 	type c for continue.

	NOTE:  Your floppy drive has a small hole next to it.   
Shoving the end of a paper clip 	into this hole may force the  
diskette to be ejected (it didn't for me, but that's what the 	hole  
is there for).

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bradshaw@thelma.hq.af.mil (Michelle A. Bradshaw) writes:



>In article <1992Dec30.201547.21564@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>  
>andrew@uaneuro.uah.ualberta.ca (Andrew Penn) writes:

>I have a floppy disc entombed in my Station running 3.0 curtesy of  
>SoftPC 2.0. Can someone tell me how to get it out?

>I had the EXACT same problem earlier this month.  Here's my solution:
>	Get to the ROM monitor by pressing the ~ key (without  
>pressing Shift) while holding 	down the Command bar (hold down both  
>Command keys on keyboards that have 	two). When you see the "nmi>"  
>prompt, type monitor.
This is really not a good practice.  Typing 'monitor' from the NMI
monitor prompt is asking for a corrupt disk.  A safer course of
action here is to first kill off the SoftPC process or anything else
that might have a hold of the floppy, become root, and type 'disk -e
/dev/rfd0a'.  Then, reboot cleanly with Command-~ or the 'reboot'
command as root.  The reboot is necessary because you have confused
the autodiskmount daemon by manually ejecting the disk without
properly unmounting it.  (If you don't reboot, disks that are
inserted will not be recognized)

>	At the "NeXT>" prompt, type ef for eject floppy.  Once you  
>get your diskette back, 	type c for continue.
Last time I checked (granted, I haven't used a NeXT for close to 3
weeks now, horror of horrors, so my memory may be cloudy by a warm
vacation in S.C.), there is no 'continue' available in the Monitor,
only in the NMI mini-monitor.  Once you have exited to the monitor,
you have killed the processes that were running.  In a very unclean
manner, I might add.

>	NOTE:  Your floppy drive has a small hole next to it.   
>Shoving the end of a paper clip 	into this hole may force the  
>diskette to be ejected (it didn't for me, but that's what the 	hole  
>is there for).

This, coupled with a clean reboot (command-~), is the best advice
for people who don't want to muck around in UNIX.  I have never seen
an operable floppy drive whose hole failed to eject a disk when a 
sturdy paperclip was stuck in it.
-- 
David Lemson                                                (217) 244-1205
University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu                UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson 
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In article <1992Dec30.201547.21564@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>  
andrew@uaneuro.uah.ualberta.ca (Andrew Penn) writes:

I have a floppy disc entombed in my Station running 3.0 curtesy of  
SoftPC 2.0. Can someone tell me how to get it out?

Andrew Penn
E-Mail:		andrew@uaneuro.uah.ualberta.ca


I tried to answer via email, but there must be something wrong with  
your adress. So let me answer on the pulbic way (it might be  
interesting to other, too!):

... try the following:

1 - detach floppy at SoftPC
2 - click at your browser
3 - choose disk - eject at the browser (nothing happens now!)
4 - click back at SoftPC (the disk now should be ejected)

I know, it sounds a bit funny.  And it sometimes is hard to do all  
these steps running a 'backup'-command in SoftPC over a lot of discs.  
But at my site it works!

-Borris-


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