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From: omh@nancy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Disk Drive Won`t Eject #!?#!?
Message-ID: <13901@brunix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Mar-87 19:26:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 26 19:26:49 1987
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Reply-To: omh@nancy.UUCP (Owen M. Hartnett)
Organization: Brown University Computer Science Dept.
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Keywords: 800K Drive

If you'd rather not take your Mac Apart, I can suggest trying a technique
that I've used successfully at least three dozens times.

Warning:  The recommended suggestion is to take your Mac to a dealer.  Trying
the below technique may somehow be classified as "abuse" and may void your
warranty.  But if you're out of warranty, and you gotta take it into the
shop anyway, and you feel lucky... ***BUT*** Don't blame me! I tried to save
you a $100 service call.

Problem:  Disk only ejects about 1/8 inch and won't go out any further.  You
push it back in and the same thing happens.

Suggestion:  Don't pull out the disk!!!  Don't pull out the disk!!!

Instead, get a piece of cardboard, nothing heavy, about 100 lb or so. A 3x5
card is perfect.  Insert this *above* your disk.  Insert it approximately
as far as the length of the disk, but don't force it (don't force anything, be
really gentle. Just kind of slide it over towards the left side of the disk.)
Now re-insert the disk, making sure the card goes in about the same distance.
You can still slide it in here, if that's your idea of a good time.

Now eject the disk,  If it doesn't come clean, my name's not Ronald Reagan.

P.S.  Some one at a BCS meeting let it slip (this was not an official pro-
nouncement) that an IBM PC disk cover works wonderfully in place of the
above cardboard.  See that. You never know when an IBM PC will come in handy!


Owen Hartnett
Brown University Computer Science

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