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- From: tomk@fc.hp.com (Tom Kennedy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP drive won't eject! Help?
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- Date: 12 Feb 1996 20:53:18 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
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- 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
-