At 23:37 -0400 on 08/07/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>would no doubt work. I am starting from "scratch." I need a way to make a
>400k disk so that I can put an OS on that disk (with another machine) so

800K disks *should* be able to be formatted as 400K disks in other 800K
drives (as well as Superdrives, for that matter).  Have you tried in, say,
an SE or something similar?

>paper clip. When the machine tries to eject a disk it does not raise the
>mechanism high enough to align with the front slot. I cleaned and lubed
>the thing, but the alignment problem remains. Advice?

See if the worm gear is advancing the mechanism far enough forward.

the pickle

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