MacOS System 7 floppy eject

[Papalapa]

After setting my Macintosh LCII with MacOS 7.5 I found a behaviour not seen at the moment.

When I want to eject a floppy disk, I choose Eject disk on the upper menu and the floppy is correctly ejected of the drive although the disk icon stills being shown in the desktop. Now if I want to turn off the Mac there's a message requesting to insert the floppy on the drive and if I do this the disk is immediatelly ejected and the Mac correctly turned off.

I made lots of tests and re-installations on this computer and I rememeber that in one case when I clicked Eject disk the floppy was ejected and the icon on the desktop dissapeared (this is the way that I think should it work). I checked all the options in the Extensions and Control Panels but I do not found any parameter that seems to be related to this feature.

Is this the way to correctly eject the floppy on MacOS 7.5 or should I use any special key or keys combination to do this?

 

[pigoo3]

When I want to eject a floppy disk, I choose Eject disk on the upper menu and the floppy is correctly ejected of the drive although the disk icon stills being shown in the desktop.

If the floppy disk icon remains on the desktop after ejecting...this most likely means that disk is still being used for something (booting disk, data disk, application disk, etc.). In order to solve this (if possible)...transfer what's on the floppy disk to the LC II's internal HD...then you shouldn't need to insert/use floppies at all.

- Nick

 

[pm-r]

Is this the way to correctly eject the floppy on MacOS 7.5 or should I use any special key or keys combination to do this?

I could be wrong, but I thought the correct floppy command in OS 7.5 was Command-Shift-1 (or what ever number the OS thought the floppy volume number was). i.e.: some Macs of that era had dual floppy drives.

But something vaguely familiar but I can't recall, was something to do to avoid the problem you are having. But as Nick says, something on the floppy could still be in use.





- Patrick
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[Papalapa]

Thank you for your response, finally I found the solution: To drag the floppy icon to the trash bin. It is not logic for me because this operation seems to indicate that do you want to erase the floppy but it works: The floppy icon is not shown anymore on the desktop and the disk is ejected at the same time.

 

[IWT]

It is not logic for me because this operation seems to indicate that do you want to erase the floppy but it works

I didn't have a Mac at the time of Floppy Disks; but the action you describe, logical or otherwise, is still in use today with the latest Operating System, as one way to Eject an External Hard Drive.

So, it's not knew.

Ian

 

[pm-r]

So, it's not knew.

To dismount
I sure have had Macs that used floppies and optical discs and of course external drives or devices but the OS method of dragging them to the trashcan to dismount or eject always seemed to be quite illogical, especially when they held data that you wanted to keep.

It seems odd that Apple has never changed that particular feature. But at least most of their old keyboards had an Eject key that made sense even if it wasn't always selective for the device one wanted to eject.





- Patrick
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