On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 05:32 PM, Obrecht, Jerry A wrote: >>> Hi again. > My computer wouldn't shutdown after I had plugged in my external floppy > drive...I had a blue screen with the spinning rainbow disk. Is this the > legendary blue screen of death? > Is this what happens when the SmartDisk is left plugged into the USB > port? I had to UNPLUG the computer to restart. > Are peripherals this problematic...one can't leave them plugged in? Just > SmartDisk products? I can't imagine having to unplug a printer or cdrw > drive. > > Donald, > > What you have done is one of the recommended trouble shooting > techniques to resolve startup problems; that is, disconnect all > peripherals, except for keyboard and mouse, then restart. > > This kind of startup problem occurs when a USB peripheral, added with > all other USB peripherals, draw more power (current) than the USB buss > on the Mac is designed to provide. At startup, the Mac firmware checks > the various busses. If it detects a lower than nominal voltage on a > buss, it assumes that there is a buss problem and the startup either > halts or hangs. To correct this, you may want to invest in a quality > powered USB hub; that is, one that has its own power supply...or just > live with the minor inconvenience and plug in the flippy drive after > startup. > > Jerry > >
Jerry: My floppy drive is supposedly self-powered. What concerns me is that it seemed to not allow me to shutdown the computer. I selected shutdown from the Apple menu (OS X) as usual to shutdown and instead the screen went blue and the spinning disk appeared. The only choice I had was to unplug the iMac. So I have unplugged my VST SmartDisk floppy drive and am afraid that if I use it again I'll crash or something. I can't believe that using a USB peripheral means having to unplug it before shutting down every time, or does it? Is this a quirk with SmartDisk? Thanks, Donald -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
