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- From: slider@ccnet.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP drive won't eject! Help?
- Date: 13 Feb 1996 13:19:13 GMT
- Organization: Jay Miner........Father of great things and a true engineering visionary...he is sorely missed around the world
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- -> tomk@fc.hp.com (Tom Kennedy) writes:
- -> Scott Maxwell (maxwell@snidely.jpl.nasa.gov) wrote:
- -> : I just got my new ZIP drive today and it's getting along great with my
- -> : Oktagon controller. Only one small problem: I can't get it to eject
- -> : its disk!
- ->
- -> : Yes, I've tried hitting the little button (:-); when I do, the amber
- -> : light flashes, I hear a short clicking, the amber light flashes again,
- -> : there's a quieter click, then the amber light flashes once more -- and
- -> : that's it, nothing else happens. I fear that the mechanism for
- -> : ejecting disks is broken, but maybe it just thinks it's connected to a
- -> : Mac (although this even happens with the computer shut off). I'm
- -> : going to try the emergency disk eject feature, but I don't want to
- -> : rely on that all the time! Any suggestions?
- ->
- -> Sounds like a bad Zip drive. When connected to a mac, the Zip ignores
- -> the eject button. Yours is attempting to eject, but is failing.
- ->
- -> Send it back and get another one!
- ->
- -> Tom Kennedy
- ->
- ->>>>
- I have seen this posted from a LOT of zipp drive users...Apparently
- IOMEGA was in such a rush to meet the zipp drive demand that they botched
- a lot of zip drives in the manufacturing...This is not only AMIGA related...
- A LOT of zip users have reported the FUNKY disk eject button not working correctly.
- laterzzz
- James Vigliotti
- slider@ccnet.com
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