Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!giza.cis.ohio-state.edu!francis From: francis@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Floppy infinite eject problem Message-ID: <81244@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 6 Jun 90 19:03:11 GMT References: <9848@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <1990Jun6.184414.6765@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: RD Francis Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 33 In article <1990Jun6.184414.6765@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> paryavi@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Saiid Paryavi) writes: >In article <9848@lindy.Stanford.EDU> simoni@strat.stanford.edu writes: >>I have been trying to connect an 800K Sony floppy disk drive up to the >>external drive port of a Mac Plus. When I turn on the computer the disk >>drive immediately begins to infinitely cycle through its eject sequence. >>Has anyone else seen this problem? And of course, does anyone know what the >>problem might be? >This happend to me once. The way I fixed it was to hold down the mouse button >while switching the Mac on (just as you would to eject a stuck floppy). You >should hold the mouse down until the drive stops ejecting. This happened to me once, too. I had a hard disk, and I got it to mount off the hard disk instead of a floppy by holding down the mouse button for a while (which forced the drive to try to mount the non-existent disk a little harder, I think -- it wouldn't try to eject as often) and then letting up on the mouse button. However, this wasn't a solution, just a way around the problem. Once I got booted up off my hard disk, it still thought that there was a floppy disk in the drive, and told me that it wasn't a Mac disk. I had to insert a disk to get any work done. In addition, doing work off the hard drive took somewhat longer than usual, and doing work of the floppy disk was, essentailly, impossible. I took my Mac to the Apple technician where I worked. He fixed it for me (of course, since we were an authorized Apple repair place, he had to give me a new drive, which cost something like $140). If these are your symptoms, you have my pity.... -- R David Francis francis@cis.ohio-state.edu