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- From: psheffield@earthlink.net (Patrick Sheffield)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: Burning disks in ShapeShifter
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 08:45:54 GMT
- Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
- Message-ID: <889.6641T1436T2362@earthlink.net>
- References: <1996Mar8.121939@miavx1>
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- > Lately I've been realizing an oversight that could be disasterous. If you
- >insert a disk into the floppy drive under ShapeShifter, the disk spins
- >forever unless you eject the disk (either Command-E or Drag) or if you switch
- >over to the workbench and do some kind of disk access on the floppy. The
- [snip]
- > Basically my post is this: Is this part of the Mac's OS and something
- >which >can't be avoided through some creative work by Christian? It's a pain
- >to keep
- [snip]
- > I've been using 3.2, and I guess I'll go up to 3.4 to see if it was maybe
- >fixed there, but if not, it might be a nice hack to consider for 3.5.
-
- Christian says in the documentation that he does this to remind you not to
- remove the disk. I agree that it is scarry (I'm not concerned for the media,
- just the drive motor), and wish it were possible to turn it off (how 'bout
- that, Christian?)
-
- Patrick Sheffield
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