--- Marten van de Kraats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >No, but someone else was discussing this topic with > me as it applied to > >SyJet drives about three years ago. If you put > them in a vertical > >orientation, they shoot disks at you. If you put > them horizontally, they > >eject pretty normally. > > > Too bad, placing them horizontally makes them more > likely to catch > the click of death... Personal experience...
A common cause of that is the "killer disk" where a bit of the edge gets torn then it rips the heads off any drive it's inserted into. My 5.25" SCSI Zip 100 (blue faceplate) in my PC is apparently more robust than the 3.5" versions. I once unkowingly stuck a "killer disk" in it, it made a horrible thumping noise so I just yanked the power cord then used the emergency eject on the drive. The drive survived just fine and still works today. :) ===== "The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be so very barren in the rest of the planets?" Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686 [EMAIL PROTECTED] My ICQ# 16024947 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> 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/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
