Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!oz.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Floptical ejection snafu Message-ID:Date: 10 Aug 89 14:02:54 GMT References: <7309@microsoft.UUCP> <376@eedsp.gatech.edu> Reply-To: J Greely Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 15 In-reply-to: flur@eedsp.gatech.edu's message of 10 Aug 89 12:28:20 GMT In article <376@eedsp.gatech.edu> flur@eedsp.gatech.edu (Peter W. Flur) writes: >As I remember from readinq the documentation, that is what the little >slot is for just above the right hand corner of the flopty. Supposedly, >you can insert something and pop out the disk in case of power failure >or something. The something in question is the NeXT-issue icepick, also used to open the case (ok, it's actually a ball hex wrench, but it *does* make a decent icepick). One is shipped with every machine. I've never had to use it to eject a disk since 0.9 came out, but I've also never had a power failure with an OD in the drive. -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)