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HELP!!! Optical Disc stuck in my drive

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From: Essmann Gerrit (rath)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 11:03
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We have a 030 cube with an OD drive running NeXTstep 2.1. One of these
days when I needed to reboot the machine, the cube didn't recognize the
OD, telling something from unexpected signals. The machine was not able
to boot until we disconnected the OD power plug. The current situation
is like this: When booting, in verbose report mode, it says:

  odc0 at .....
  od0 at odc0 slave 0
  od1 at odc1 slave 1
  :
  :

The cube then boots without problems, but the OD can't be accessed. There
is still an optical disc inside the drive, ejecting it with disk -e /dev/rod0a
doesn't work.

When having the OD connected, boot process finally breaks very late with the
following message:

  panic: (Cpu 0) od: empty q
  panic>

So I have two questions:

1. How do I eject the optical disc that is stuck right now?

2. What do I do connect my OD to the machine again?

Thanks for any help,

Gerrit


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