>>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<< --------------------------------- Don,
Sorry if I don't recall all the info from this thread, and possibly have some of it wrong... Did you install a SmartDisk driver? From the sounds of your symptoms, I would venture that you have an extension problem caused by that driver. Try removing (de-installing) it, then restart and try the SmartDisk without its special driver. Apple has included support for many peripherals like Zip drives and may possibly have included support for the SmartDisk; for example, you should not install the Zip driver for Zip drives. If this happens to work, let us know. Jerry -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
