Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!ut-ngp!osmigo From: osmigo@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ron Morgan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Three floppy drives on an SE? Message-ID: <6951@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 08:45:48 EST Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.6951 Posted: Fri Nov 27 08:45:48 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 21:23:44 EST Organization: Speech Communication UT Austin Lines: 34 While waiting for my hard disk to arrive, I've been fooling around with my dual-floppy SE. It has a regular port on the back for an external disk drive, in addition to having an SCSI port. Since my trusty old 400K external drive is practically worthless, marketwise (and I paid $400 for the thing way back when...), I'm trying to connect it into that external drive port and use it for a 3rd floppy, giving me two 800K internals and a 400K external. The problem is, it keeps ejecting the disk. At bootup, for example, the disk's icon appears on the desktop, then becomes shaded as the disk pops out of the drive. If you double-click an application icon, it'll ask you to re-insert the disk, at which point it'll whir away and do what it needs to do, then eject the disk again. And so it goes, all the way into and through an application. When the application needs the disk, it asks for it, you re-insert it, the application reads it, then it re-ejects it. Other than this problem, everything works fine. No bombs; it just keeps ejecting the disk. Is this some unconquerable fault with the 256K ROM's? Using different System/Finders didn't help. Neither did leaving one of the other two drives empty. Ron Morgan "Who are you?" "We're computerists." "AAAAAUUGGHH!!!" -- UUCP: {ihnp4,allegra,ut-sally}!ut-ngp!osmigo osmigo@ut-ngp.UUCP ARPA: osmigo@ngp.utexas.edu