Re: Always sumpthin darnit

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <4udm24$idg@pink.lm.com>,
Matt Portune <mportune@telerama.lm.com> wrote:
>Jeez, what next.  Even though I don't have my RamFAST back yet, I decided 
>to power up the GS to play some floppy based games.  Guess what isn't 
>working now... my floppy eject button.  my goodness, I must have done 
>something really bad to deserve all this.  heh.
>
>I ran through all the paces and found out...
>
>- the motor is fine... if the system makes an eject call, it works with 
>  no problem.
>
>- I actually got it to eject once by hitting the button 900 times for no 
>  reason, but that was the last time it worked.  No more.
>
>Any advice besides the obvious?  Any McGuyver-ish tricks to try?  

Sounds like the wire has come loose from the switch.  Take your
swiss army knife, open the drive, carefully remove the switch and the
button, poke the wires out the front of the drive, duct tape them
together with a bit of rubber band between.  be sure to leave about a
quarter inch of bare wire past the rubber band, so when you squeeze
the two wires they touch and make the disk eject.

Otherwise, re-attach the wires to the switch.  :)




>Speaking of the RamFAST, here is the latest...
>
>Sequential has been SUPER so far!  (believe it or not)  I've been on the 
>phone with Joe, and he said they already fixed it, and it's on its way 
>back.  Sure enough, it was completely broiled. :)  He said they had to 
>replace the actual scsi-controller chip and one of the diodes.
>
>(I have no idea what I did to trash it like that)
>
>But hopefully it will be in tommorow so I can put it in and find out it 
>still doesn't work!
>
>:)
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