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Re: Drive will not eject



Steve Jensen writes:

>Here's the problem-  I brought home a 3.5 drive from one of the GS's at
>the school where I teach so my kids could use it on their Mac Plus.   It
>worked ok until I put it back on the GS.  Now it won't eject the disks.
>Other wise it seems to function as normal.  How can I get it to eject
>disks when the button is pressed again?

  I don't know what the long term solution is, but if you just want to get
a disk out of the drive then get a small piece of wire (e.g. a paperclip),
and poke it into the little hole next to/in the middle of the eject button.

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