Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk

Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk by kalleboo on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:09AM (#11180202)

I remember when Apple had the soft-eject floppy drives that would only eject after the disk was properly unmounted, and then they even did soft-eject PCMCIA slots. I was surprised when their SD card slots weren't soft-eject.

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Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk by stormbrew on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:35AM (#11180256)

This was great until your Mac decided that it didn't want to unmount that disk for some reason. And then you got out a paperclip.

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Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk by minikites on Friday February 26, 2016 @06:11AM (#11180843)

Before resorting to a paper clip, the trick was to reboot while holding the mouse button. This still works today with CDs if the CD is damaged and the OS gets caught up trying to read it.

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Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk by PhasmaFelis on Friday February 26, 2016 @05:06AM (#11180667)

I actually remember frantically searching through my uncle's Mac manual after I inserted a corrupt boot disk (or possibly not a boot disk at all) and then couldn't get the thing to boot, which meant I couldn't use the soft eject.

Fortunately the paperclip trick was in there.

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Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk by derefr on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:44AM (#11180270)

The external-USB "Superdrive" optical drive is still soft-eject, when it's got a rewritable CD in there.

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Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk by WWLink on Saturday February 27, 2016 @05:35AM (#11186730)

I don't remember soft eject slots, my powerbook g4 had a button, and I think the expresscard slots on later macbooks just used the same kinda mechanism sd cards use.

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