Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!yale!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Problems with ejecting disks. Message-ID: <1124@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 8 Feb 90 23:30:43 GMT Lines: 32 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <10663@nigel.udel.EDU>, new@udel.edu (Darren New) writes: >In article <1114@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: >>The thing is, you will not 'hurt your Amiga' by ejecting a disk, whether the >>light is on or not, despite warnings to the contrary. > >Oh, I beg to differ! I once ejected a disk with the light on and caused serious >damage to the floppy. I managed to unclip the clip that holds the head assembly >to the drive. Only with the help of an electronics surgeon was I able to >get the thing reclipped without a $100 charge from a repair center. >I think it is much better to reset and then pop the disk than it is to >pop the disk with the light on. -- Darren Beg to differ all you want, but I tell you there is no difference between ejecting the drive with the light on or with it off, in any physical way. The heads are not of the 'load when in use', 'unload when idle' variety. They are always 'loaded' and in contact with the disk. If you press the eject, the same things happen whether the light is on or not (execpt that if you are writiing, you will end up with a clobbered track. I once did exactly the same thing as you did, but while the light was off and the drive was not spinning (I fixed it myself). -larry -- Gallium Aresnide is the technology of the future; always has been, always will be. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+