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ZIP drives and the dreaded 'click'
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Hash: SHA1 Ian wrote: Has anyone ever encountered a 250 MByte clicking drive? I think I've got one here. I've dealt with 100 MByte drives clicking and seen plenty of similar from people with 100 MByte drives, but not 250 MByte drives. Just want to know before I get laughed at and messed around again by the IOMEGA support people. Way back with the first Iomega 'Bernoulli Box' drives, the head(s) would automatically be stepped in a pattern designed (according to Iomega) to reduce wear of the heads and the media. My recollection is that the 100 meg drives (and probably the 250 meg devices) have a similar automatic function. Personally, I stopped using Zip disks when re-writeable CDs reached approximately 1/20 the price of a 100 meg disk. - -- Ron n1zhi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+95YhO9oOG7OjB3YRAhG9AKCymnwSVzkzMUtf/h+n0VsdrWzcoQCg5Svh R0VZavSSdNsFDEW2QkVcBpQ= =p5xK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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Ron Cook wrote in message ...
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ian wrote: Has anyone ever encountered a 250 MByte clicking drive? I think I've got one here. I've dealt with 100 MByte drives clicking and seen plenty of similar from people with 100 MByte drives, but not 250 MByte drives. Just want to know before I get laughed at and messed around again by the IOMEGA support people. Way back with the first Iomega 'Bernoulli Box' drives, the head(s) would automatically be stepped in a pattern designed (according to Iomega) to reduce wear of the heads and the media. My recollection is that the 100 meg drives (and probably the 250 meg devices) have a similar automatic function. Personally, I stopped using Zip disks when re-writeable CDs reached approximately 1/20 the price of a 100 meg disk. - -- Ron n1zhi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+95YhO9oOG7OjB3YRAhG9AKCymnwSVzkzMUtf/h+n0VsdrWzcoQCg5Svh R0VZavSSdNsFDEW2QkVcBpQ= =p5xK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- I have a 250 and it clicks all the time. Been four years now! Also, I find my Zip 250 to be wuicker to send new downloads to..no pulling out of Cd disk from file...just right click, then click on SEND TO, and then indicate the ZIP letter. CD's a great for pics, where they're filled only with JPEGS on one disk, but my ZIP has scores of little apps that I TX to after I download...Always there inc ase of disk crash. |
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