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From: lucky@melmac.UMD.EDU (Lucky the Cat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: When I installed my SIMMs... oops.
Message-ID: <9002020234.AA00791@melmac.UMD.EDU>
Date: 2 Feb 90 02:34:31 GMT
References: <77800002@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Maryland, Computer Science Center
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In article <77800002@m.cs.uiuc.edu> thompson@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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}Nothing.  Nada.  The floppy didn't even register.  As far as I can tell, the
} internal floppy drive is not there anymore, according to the Mac.  When I put
} a disk in, even in the Finder, nothing happens.  FKEY 1 just beeps at me (as
} do 2 and 0).  I have to paperclip it out if I want it out, because the drive
} is completely dead.
}
}Now.  Is the drive truly dead?  (Did I damage it or something?).  Or did I
} plug it in the wrong slot upon replugging everything back in after
} adding my SIMMs?  I am fairly certain that it was in the slot labelled
} "lower drive", and that the slot labelled "upper drive" was empty.  That's

  Hate to say this, but, have you checked the cable going into the floppy??, more
  times than I would care to remember I have accidentaly pulled the cable half way
  out, it may not look like this but check it, with the power off of course, sometimes
  this toasts the drive, but hopefully not.  Both drive ports on the mother board
  will work just the same.

}Any suggestions?  Any ideas at all?  Or do I have to go pay for a dealer
} to look at it after all?
}
}- Mark Thompson
}  Grad Student in CS
}  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign



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