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In article <1992Sep29.230942.11592@helical.com> rallan@helical.com  
(Robb Aley Allan) writes:
> Frank Mitchell writes
>    I have the same problem.  No one else did, UNTIL other people  
changed
>    their Disk Options in Workspace->Preferences.  (Changing the  
prefs back
>    to the default does no good.)  I also noticed that, when I  
inserted the 
>    floppy, Workspace used the "fixed disk" options, not the  
"removable disk" 
>    ones.  (Maybe that's why the icon didn't show up.)
>    
>    Maybe setting the "Disk Options" triggers this bug, and somehow  
the 
>    Workspace thinks the floppy is a "fixed" disk. Perhaps device  
permissions 
>    also have something to do with it -- my floppy devices are set  
like this:
> 
> 	...
> 
> I wonder. I can't eject floppies either, or opticals or CDs. But  
they show up with the  
> correct icons, so WM seems to know what they are. In any case, I  
can't initialize them,  
> which I COULD do with the hard disk when I have selected any of its  
directories, so WM  
> doesn't recognize them as hard drives either.
> 
> I can't believe permissions have anything to do with it. In the  
first place, I expect  
> that WM does some of its dirty work as root, since initializing  
floppies under 2.x could  
> be done by anyone. Secondly, my login is part of operator group, so  
I should have access  
> thru WM to the drivers without problem.
> 
> -- 
> Robb Aley Allan, The Gulfstream Group
> 220 Sunrise Avenue, Palm Beach, FL 33480
> voice: 407/ 832-4013   email: rallan@helical.com
> Co-founder/director, Gotham Users of NeXT (GUN)

--
I use floppies and opticals on a ND, and haven't had the eject  
problem.  Occasionally, a floppy will not show up on the shelf, but  
if I find and select it in my browser, the eject option activates and  
selecting it ejects the disk.  

My external fixed disk **always** shows up on the shelf.

I have had no problem initializing floppies.

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