17 Sep
2002
17 Sep
'02
4 a.m.
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Carlos Murillo wrote:
I did another experiment: I unplugged the floppy
ribbon cable and
turned the computer on. No more "...initialize or eject" dialogs.
Oh! Well, then in that case, you might be in luck.
My problem only went away when I had _both_ the internal _and_ an external
floppy drive connected. If I had one, the other, or neither, I would get
the continuous dialogs. You may very well just have a bum floppy drive. If
the defect is not immediately traceable to the disk presence switch, I
would spring the $5 for a replacement drive.
Be glad it's failed now, instead of five years ago. My first SE/30 ate
floppy drives like candy. Refurbed drives cost $80, then.
ok
r.