Re: Flopticals and Prosel 16

[khym@bga.com (Khym Mahn)]

In article <1994Apr24.091835.9711@pro-novapple.clark.net>,
Dave Harvey <daveharv@pro-novapple.clark.net> wrote:
>I'm learning more and more about using flopticals. The manual that came
>with the drive says to NEVER use the manual button.  Turns out that this is
>very good advice.  Using the manual eject button can cause your disk to be
>trashed. I found out the hard way!  When I inserted that same disk later

Perhaps you pressed the eject button too soon? Since the RamFAST
doesn't immediately write out data to the drive, it's possible to
eject the disk before the RF has flushed its cache. Using the software
eject is safest, since the RF will flush the cache before actually
ejecting.

>It also appears that there's no way to eject a disk when running ProDOS 8
>or at least I havn't found out any way.  Maybe there is.  Anybody know a
>way?

Well, I guess you could wait a few seconds, make sure the drive light
is off, then press the eject button. A CDA that ejected the disk
would be neat tho :)
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