emusonacid!

Hi all,

I just set up my Mac-Zip drive-E6400 in a scsi chain and it's been great except for now I can't eject the zip disk by any means other than having the Mac do it.

Which means if I want to eject the disk after doing some work using Peak, for example, I have to restart the computer, wait for it to see the zip disk and not recognise the format and prompt me to eject it, then shut the computer off again, which is obviously a pain in the ass.

Any suggestions as to a solution greatly appreciated....

Matthew

My MAC gives me a "do you want to format or eject" message when I've got an EMU formated zip in the drive. I simply do what I have to do with the disk, choose eject on the MAC and continue my business on the MAC.

I dunno if this helps ???

madmax wrote:My MAC gives me a "do you want to format or eject" message when I've got an EMU formated zip in the drive. I simply do what I have to do with the disk, choose eject on the MAC and continue my business on the MAC.

I dunno if this helps ???

Thanks for the reply.

If you press the button to eject the zip disk, does it actually eject?

you know, for some reason, i remember seeing that the emu can let you eject your zip or cd rom drive from the face panel. i might be dreaming though.

this is one thing i never liked about macs. my friend had a mac when i was younger and we would play video games on it. in order to get the drive to open up, you had to drag the game to the waste basket and the cd rom, that had no button, just a small hole, would eject the disk.... sometimes. every so often the disk would be thrown away but the drive wouldn't open. I remember one time it took us almost an hour to get the damn drive to eject the disc. he always had a paper clip handy. I thought that was the dumbest thing i had ever seen.

back to my first paragraph. i think this eject command might be in the utlities or something like that, it would be where you load your presets and samples and mount your scsi devices and drives. i just can't remember if what i remember is accurate. if it is, and i am going to check on this now, you might be able to make the emu eject the zip instead of your mac. oh, and i assume you can't just reach over and eject the disc by hitting the drives eject button right? i will check into this more though.

sampleandhold wrote:oh, and i assume you can't just reach over and eject the disc by hitting the drives eject button right?

I've tried pushing it, pushing it hard, and pushing it really persistently hard. None worked.

re: front panel EMU ejections ... I had a brief look through the manual - my manual is for OS 2.8, not the 4.62 that I use; yes, I know this makes no sense - and no goods. But then maybe you all are smart, whereas I'm not.

motionpicture wrote:

madmax wrote:My MAC gives me a "do you want to format or eject" message when I've got an EMU formated zip in the drive. I simply do what I have to do with the disk, choose eject on the MAC and continue my business on the MAC.

I dunno if this helps ???

Thanks for the reply.

If you press the button to eject the zip disk, does it actually eject?

As long as the command comes from my MAC and not from the EMU, the drive complies. For some reason it will not accept eject messages from the EMU.

madmax wrote:As long as the command comes from my MAC and not from the EMU, the drive complies. For some reason it will not accept eject messages from the EMU.

So if you want to swap disks mid-session, do you have to shut down your mac and wait for it to start up again and give you the "do you want to format or eject" prompt?

motionpicture wrote:

madmax wrote:As long as the command comes from my MAC and not from the EMU, the drive complies. For some reason it will not accept eject messages from the EMU.

So if you want to swap disks mid-session, do you have to shut down your mac and wait for it to start up again and give you the "do you want to format or eject" prompt?

Hmmmmm. My MAC gives me that prompt as soon as I put an EMU formatted disk in the drive. There's gotta be some place to get the MAC to give that prompt whenever it doesn't recognize the disk, at startup or not. Unfortunatelly, I couldn't tell you where this is.

The solution I've arrived at:

Keep scsi chain as mac-zip-e6400
Shut down computer
Insert Zip disk
Load up bank from Zip disk
Eject disk and turn on computer

When I want to save my samples at the end of the session, I merely (!) have to shut down my computer, insert the disk, save, then remember to eject it before I next turn on my computer. That way I never lose control of the drive.

This is very backwards, of course, but this is the best way I've found.

If there any Mac programming geniuae (plural of genius?) out there, please let me know if you've figured out a way to make the Mac look past the drive.