Subject: Re: floppy driver has hung ...
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Neil J. McRae <neil@domino.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/25/1996 13:11:11
On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:11:27 +1100 
 matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> wrote:


>From the ok prompt:

eject floppy works when i got stuck like this

> 
>    Quoting matthew green,
>    
>    >    oh, this is great, i can't even forcibly eject the cd...
>    
>    > s/cd/fd/  ... duh.
>    
>    Well, all the built-in floppy drives I have seen for SparcStations
>    have these very useful small holes at the front, through which you can,
>    say, stick a paperclip and get the thing out of there..
>    
>    It does come in useful when you're debugging software that accesses
>    the floppy ;-)
> 
> unfortunately, this is what i mean by "forcibly".  i hope i don't
> have to pull the thing apart....
> 





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