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From: rnf@shumv1.uucp (Rick Fincher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: The Incredible 3.5" Disk...
Message-ID: <1989Dec10.175025.3235@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 89 17:50:25 GMT
References: <89342.122150SAB121@PSUVM.BITNET> <11779@smoke.BRL.MIL> <20511@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher)
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In article <20511@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Andy McFadden) writes:

>
>Semi-horror story #2:
>pull it out.  However, if I pulled WHILE THE DRIVE WAS STILL EJECTING
>(listen carefully to it), it would come out freely.  It appears that after
>the drive gave up on it, it locked the disk in place.
>

Funny Story #1:

The newer 3.5 drives have an adjuster for disk eject force.  Sometimes the
force is not high enough and the disk doesn't come all the way out.  I've
seen guys in a repair shop crank the force up and shoot disk all the way 
across the room!  You can even play Disk-Football by aiming the drive and
shooting through some "goalposts".

Rick Fincher
rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu