SE/30 odd behavior

From: r. 'bear' stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Tue Sep 17 11:00:01 2002

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.
Received on Tue Sep 17 2002 - 11:00:01 BST