Re: Zip

["Daniel L. MacIsaac" <Dan.MacIsaac@Nau.Edu>]

Iomega replaced my "click-of-death" effected drive w/o qualm.  They did not
ask about warranty dates (mine had expired).  It was still a pain, but they 
did their best as far as I can see.

Dan M

PS -- warning: early ZIP cartridges w/data have a shelf life of about a year.
ZIPs are NOT long term backup.  We had a lot of problems hereabouts due to 
this surprise.  They format fine after a year; but the data 
is gone.  I have not had similar problems with regularly used ZIPs; nor with
recently manufactured cartridges (yet).

Dan MacIsaac, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northern AZ Univ
danmac@nau.edu  http://www.phy.nau.edu/~danmac/homepage.html

> what is the "Click of Death"?  I have two zip drives and this doesn't
> sound good!  This isn't some new hoax, is it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sam
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sam Sampere
> Syracuse University
> Department of Physics
> Syracuse (Where all the snow is NOT..), NY 13244
>
> On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Jim Green wrote:
>
> > Folks, are there those on the list who have experienced the Iomega,
> > Zip-Drive Click-of-Death???
> >
> > What have you done about it?
> >
> > More to the point, what has Iomega done about it?
> >
> > Jim Green
> > JMGreen@sisna.com
> >
> > www.sisna.com/users/jmgreen