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m12-182-8: zip drive won't eject.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Goodman)
Wed Oct 29 15:21:09 1997

To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 15:21:06 EST
From: Jason Goodman <goodmanj@MIT.EDU>

  The zip drive on the Sparc 5 workstation m12-182-8 won't eject unless one uses
a paperclip.  mzip -e y: doesn't work, nor does the gray button on the front of
the drive.  There's significant friction when inserting the disk.  The drive
reads data just fine; I haven't tried writing.

				Jason Goodman

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