Re: drive will not eject

[grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)]

In article <1993Apr28.3159.11463@dosgate> "john farris" <john.farris@canrem.com> writes:
>
>A friend has the same problem, I think it is the manual eject arm that
>is causing the problem. I had to open the drive to get the disk out and
>found that the damn arm to eject was compleatly stuck; I gave it a few
>taps and it was all right but then out came the piece of metal a week
>later.

That little square of metal seems to go on top of the upper read-write
head, but the glue they used seems pretty weak.  It jammed in my drive,
and I ended up needing to replace the heads (not an easy task, either).

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