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From: straka@ihlpf.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Disk Drive Won`t Eject #!?#!?
Message-ID: <1291@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 26-Mar-87 15:12:04 EST
Article-I.D.: ihlpf.1291
Posted: Thu Mar 26 15:12:04 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Mar-87 06:23:50 EST
References: <420@euclid.warwick.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
Lines: 20
Keywords: 800K Drive
Summary: internal 800K disk ejection

In article <420@euclid.warwick.UUCP>, jdm@warwick.UUCP (Jim Meiss) writes:
> 	My recently upgraded Mac 512E is having problems with 
> the internal drive. Here`s what happens: 
> intermittently a disk will not eject completely.
> Instead it stickes out of the Mac about 1/8 inch, and there is
> some mechanism in the drive which won`t allow me to manually
> pull the disk out.

There is a simple workaround (not a fix, but a band-aid until you can
get it properly straightened out):

Get the Mac to try to eject the disk.  While it is just starting to
eject, gently grab the disk with 2 fingers by the wide opening in the
disk access slot, and pull (gently).  This seems to work on a Mac in our
office, and it does not put ANY stress on the disk or Mac.  It's a pain,
but will get you by for a while.  I don't know what is binding
internally.

-- 
Rich Straka     ihnp4!ihlpf!straka