SE/30 odd behavior

From: r. 'bear' stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Tue Sep 17 00:00:01 2002

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.
Received on Tue Sep 17 2002 - 00:00:01 BST