Subject: RE: Disk Eject Problem (again)
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Daniel Bolgheroni <dab__@uol.com.br>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/31/2002 21:23:13
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Jonathan Newquist wrote:

> Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 16:34:59 -0600
> From: Jonathan Newquist <jnewquis@esu10.org>
> To: Daniel Bolgheroni <dab__@uol.com.br>
> Subject: RE: Disk Eject Problem (again)
>
> did this question ever get answered?

Not to me, at least.

> -as far as i know, the most likely problem is old floppy disks:

Every disk, old or new, is ejected.

> -the second most likely problem would be dirty drives:
> sometimes your disk surfaces can be so old & decaying that they are mucking up the heads on the drives that you stick them in.  if that might be what is going on, you could use one of those gauze cleaner-floppies with the isopropyl alcohol, and then try reading a fresh floppy.  if that fixes it, then by all means toss out the old disk[s]!

I did. But every disks keep ejecting.

> -the third most likely problem might be bad connections to the floppy drive, or data corruption in some rom chip.  but i am not expert enough to deal with that.

Maybe. I will check this. But it will be to much unluck to have 3 mac68k
with the same hardware problem.

Thank you.