Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!copper!kiran From: kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) Subject: Re: Spurious disk insertion requests in System 7 Message-ID: Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University References: <5167@ryn.mro4.dec.com> Date: 8 Jun 91 04:12:46 GMT Lines: 25 long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes: > I get this too. If I dismiss the "Please insert..." dialog with a > Pretzel-Dot, I get "The Disk could not be used because it is not in > any drive". Yeah, no kidding. Followed by "Please insert...". This usually > ends up being an endless loop, so I just punch the reset switch. I always get that box (The disk is not in any drive) with OK highlighted, and click on it , the box goes away, and i drag the disk to the trash. Once i tried inserting the disk, and i don't remember what happened. I've _never_ had to reboot because of this, it's the extremely buggy 'Force Quit' that i have to reboot from... If these are the worst 7.0 bugs we're very lucky, IMHO. (Apple, that really neds to be fixed. Perhaps you could give us MacsBug back, so we could 'G FINDER' and exit that way.) -- ...kiran __________kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu________(812) 331-1710 From the corrections column in a July Fresno, CA _Bee_: "An item in Thursday's [issue] about the Massachusetts budget crisis made reference to new taxes that will help put Massachusetts 'back in the African-American.' The item should have said 'back in the black.'"