128k Mac Won't "Shut Down" — #33

Post #33 by khannonnd

Source Forum	128k Mac Won't "Shut Down" — #33
Category	Troubleshooting
Post Date	Thu, 3 Dec 2015 - 06:51
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/128k-mac-wont-shut-down.3057/

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Gorgonops said:
Honestly I wonder if something is borked with your disk controller. Can you swap disks at all? (IE, does soft eject EVER work?) Again, correct me if I'm wrong here, but on a Mac you should be able to drag the SYSTEM DISK to trash to eject it and put in a program disk; doing so creates a sort of "phantom" alias to the ejected system disk to basically remind you that the system will ask for it back later. If this wasn't possible a single drive Mac would essentially be useless.

So I put in the system disk and then tried the "Eject Disk" option under the "file" menu. The icon of the disk looked like it was ejected (i.e., the shadow-ed outline of a disk) for about 3 seconds but then reloaded without the drive doing anything. This happens both with the original disk and a copy of the system disk I made.