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From: mposton@uci.edu (Michael Poston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Fixing a stuck floppy
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Date: 13 Jun 90 16:19:40 GMT
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My thanks to all who responded to my plea for help in "unsticking" a 
stubborn floppy.

You'll never guess what it turned out to be.  Nothing short of brute force 
was working, so I decided to take out the floppy drive and take it to the 
dealer for servicing.  When I opened up the Mac's case, a floppy diskette 
practically shot out of the drive.  Then I looked at the drive, and there 
was *still* a diskette in there.  The user had somehow stuffed 2 diskettes 
into one drive!

I turned on the Mac, and the second diskette was ejected normally during 
the boot-up process.  Neither diskette looks damaged, so I'm hoping the 
head mechanism wasn't damaged either.  The drive seems to work OK today.

If I hadn't seen it, I never would have believed it.  Thanks again.

Michael