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Date Posted: 23:13:15 03/27/02 Wed
Author: Al Miner
Subject: Re: Zip in a CC - now in the FAQ!
In reply to: Chris 's message, "Zip in a CC - now in the FAQ!" on 20:57:52 03/27/02 Wed

Thanks Chris! Nicely edited.

A note:

"If you're feeling particularly ambitious, you could use a tiny little drill bit and try to precisely line up a manual eject "paperclip hole." It would be nice - in fact, very desirable - to have the ability to manually eject a disk without taking the whole CC apart."

Chris added the "- in fact, very desirable -" part, I assume as a polite way of saying "you obviously need to do this."

I shied away from this last step, mostly because I didn't have a sufficiently tiny little drill bit. So naturally, I almost immediately encountered a badly formatted Zip disk that wouldn't mount to the CC's desktop, and was thus unejectable/stuck.

Rather than tear the whole CC apart again I took a good look at the parts Zip drive I had lying next to it, and devised a non-intrusive way to eject the disk manually.

Using pliers, make a tiny "Z" at the end of a small business sized paperclip. The top of the Z should be about an 8th of an inch (3.2mm), and the diagonal line should only be 1/16" (1.6mm) tall. This "Z tool" can be slipped in above the disk at the point where the manual eject arm is (about 1/2", 13mm, in from the right side), rotated so that the top arm of the Z catches the eject arm, and can push in on the arm, manually ejecting the Zip.

Or, you could just drill a tiny little eject hole in the right place.

I'd love to hear stories of Zip installation success and woe. Post them here so we can learn better ways to do stuff!

Al

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Re: Zip in a CC /manual eject options -- Harry, 19:43:59 03/29/02 Fri
- Re: Zip in a CC /manual eject options -- Al Miner, 12:00:24 04/03/02 Wed