> on 9/27/02 12:27 AM, Randy & Cheyanne at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Terry,
>>
>> This may be too simple but usually you just drag the disk to the trash
>> to eject it.  Sorry, if I am misunderstanding your problem or wasting
>> your time with something you all ready know.
>>
>> hope that helps,
>>
>> Randy
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 08:57 PM, Terry Younkin wrote
>> among other things:
>>
>>> Now the bad news.  I now have a regular Mac hard drive icon showing
>>> for the Zip disk and can work with it like any other disk.
>>> Unfortunately, it's *too* much like a hard drive.  I cannot eject the
>>> disk.  The only thing I've been able to do to get the disk out of the
>>> Zip Drive is to shut every thing down (not the Zip Drive ...doing
>>> that can get you the Click of Death with a disk installed), then use
>>> a paper clip to eject the disk.  The front button will not eject the
>>> disk.
>>>
>
> This behavior is to be expected, as you formatted it with a driver that
> doesn't know about removable media.  Sorry that I came in late on this
> topic, but is there a reason why you don't just download the drivers
> from IOmega and use them?
>
> - Eric.
>

Apparently it won't boot off of a Zip formatted with the iomega drivers.
Unless the driver INIT adds eject support to an Apple-formatted Zip
disk...

-Andy



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