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- From: spack@adobe.com ( Scott Pack)
- Subject: Re: ZIP drive won't eject! Help?
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- References: <MAXWELL.96Feb11222141@snidely.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 21:34:27 GMT
-
- 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
-