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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
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	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!!!"

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