Can't Eject Jammed ZIP from B+W

[zodraz]

Drat!

I absent-mindedly put a KNOWN bad ZIP disk into my old B+W tower (OEM built-in).

This disk was not a "click death" but had it's internal disk stuck (it had been soaked in a rainshower).

The drive made a horrible racket trying to get the disk to spin. The spinning stopped and the green "ready light" is now constantly blinking.

The Mac is working fine other-wise.

I opened the case and couldn't find any "pin eject" hole. Pulling the faceplate off revealed no front-end "pin eject".

Will I have to remove the whole drive from the case?

Arrrgh!

     

[giantmike]

Try starting up while holding the mouse button down. That tells the computer to eject all removeable media at startup. It's worth a shot

[zodraz]

Well I just figured it out!

Duh!  

I took a second look at the ZIP drive (removed the B+Ws faceplate).

The "ready light" is also the eject button!  

Pressed the button at startup and the drive spat the disk out! Yea!

Happy to report that the drive works fine with a good ZIP disk.

Happy Monday!

     

[kelly]

Z. Says here don't manualy eject while the computer is on.

Are you sure there's no little hole right beside the slot?

http://216.239.57.104/mac?q=cache:Z1sIdSqO...&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

I don't have one but you shouldn't have to take anything apart.  

[kelly]

Ok. Nevermind.

[zodraz]

Thanks for the replies!

I didn't recall the mouse button trick. I'll have to remember that!

FYI, the eject button is "powered", so it was an "elegant" eject.

And there is no hole on the front of the unit. I looked doubley hard!

It maybe like the old external ZIP drives with the manual eject on the back. However, the enclosure of the B+W covers it up.