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- From: EFR@ballarat.edu.au (Frank Russell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP drive won't eject! Help?
- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 13:02:37
- Organization: University of Ballarat
- Message-ID: <EFR.184.000D0B39@ballarat.edu.au>
- References: <MAXWELL.96Feb11222141@snidely.jpl.nasa.gov> <spack-1902961335330001@144.7.18.64>
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- >In article <MAXWELL.96Feb11222141@snidely.jpl.nasa.gov>,
- >maxwell@snidely.jpl.nasa.gov (Scott Maxwell) 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?
- >>
- >> --
- >> -------------------------+----------------------------------------------
- >> // Scott Maxwell: | ``The Holocaust was an obscene period in our
- >> \\// maxwell@ | nation's history. ... I didn't live in this
- >> XX natasha.jpl.nasa.gov | century.'' -- Dan Quayle
-
-
- >Pressing the little button should cause the LED to flash and then eject
- >the Zip disk (one click). Works the same regardless of machine (Mac, Ami,
- >PC). I suspect that your Zip drive or that particular disk is DOA.
-
-
- >-Scott
- >spack@adobe.com
-
-
- Nope.
-
- Hold the eject button down for a couple of seconds and it should work fine. I
- don't know if this is deliberate, but a delay seems to be built in, probably
- to prevent accidental ejection when disk is in use...
-
- Cheers
-
- Frank Russell
- University of Ballarat
-