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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: SoftPC
- Message-ID: <C07pzs.H46@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <1992Dec30.201547.21564@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <15488@hq.hq.af.mil>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:59:37 GMT
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- bradshaw@thelma.hq.af.mil (Michelle A. Bradshaw) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec30.201547.21564@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- >andrew@uaneuro.uah.ualberta.ca (Andrew Penn) writes:
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- >I have a floppy disc entombed in my Station running 3.0 curtesy of
- >SoftPC 2.0. Can someone tell me how to get it out?
-
- >I had the EXACT same problem earlier this month. Here's my solution:
- > Get to the ROM monitor by pressing the ~ key (without
- >pressing Shift) while holding down the Command bar (hold down both
- >Command keys on keyboards that have two). When you see the "nmi>"
- >prompt, type monitor.
- This is really not a good practice. Typing 'monitor' from the NMI
- monitor prompt is asking for a corrupt disk. A safer course of
- action here is to first kill off the SoftPC process or anything else
- that might have a hold of the floppy, become root, and type 'disk -e
- /dev/rfd0a'. Then, reboot cleanly with Command-~ or the 'reboot'
- command as root. The reboot is necessary because you have confused
- the autodiskmount daemon by manually ejecting the disk without
- properly unmounting it. (If you don't reboot, disks that are
- inserted will not be recognized)
-
- > At the "NeXT>" prompt, type ef for eject floppy. Once you
- >get your diskette back, type c for continue.
- Last time I checked (granted, I haven't used a NeXT for close to 3
- weeks now, horror of horrors, so my memory may be cloudy by a warm
- vacation in S.C.), there is no 'continue' available in the Monitor,
- only in the NMI mini-monitor. Once you have exited to the monitor,
- you have killed the processes that were running. In a very unclean
- manner, I might add.
-
- > NOTE: Your floppy drive has a small hole next to it.
- >Shoving the end of a paper clip into this hole may force the
- >diskette to be ejected (it didn't for me, but that's what the hole
- >is there for).
-
- This, coupled with a clean reboot (command-~), is the best advice
- for people who don't want to muck around in UNIX. I have never seen
- an operable floppy drive whose hole failed to eject a disk when a
- sturdy paperclip was stuck in it.
- --
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