16 Sep
2002
16 Sep
'02
5 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Carlos Murillo wrote:
The machine thinks that there is a floppy disk in the
superdrive
constantly; it is always trying to read the (empty) drive,
then the "This disk cannot be read; Initialize? Eject?" dialog
box shows up, I click on "eject" and it starts trying to
read the nonexistent floppy again.
Something fried the disk controller. I did this to one of my SE/30s once
by being cavalier about not shutting the machine off before connecting and
disconnecting an external disk drive.
I suppose it goes without saying that the floppy controller is not a
standard part.
ok
r.