When I experienced the click of death I was installing a new SCSI zip
drive.  The drive head misaligns in some way and begins making clicking
noises.  In my case I was unaware that a problem could occur and I tried
installing zip drives that were previously working on other computers to
see if I had a bad drive.  Before I wised up that I was actually causing
physical damage, I had rendered three drives unusable.  I cannot now
remember the sequence of events but I believe there was 1 of 2
possibilities.  One, I destroyed a zip disk with a "bad" drive and then
subsequently destroyed two other drives with this damaged disk (on the same
computer).  I mention this because I did try other disks without success
but I can't remember if I tried them before or after damaging the drives.
OR ... two the computer I was installing on was actually responsible in
someway for the problem.    When I looked down into the cartridge slot in
the drive I could see that the read head had been physically damaged.  I
had to send all drives back to Iomega for repair.  Hopefully my experience
in conjunction with the information provided by the other PCBuilders will
help.  Really the moral of my story is just ... don't do what I did.  If
you get the click of death ... STOP, remove the drive, and work with Iomega
on a solution.

Bill Nussbaumer

At 01:25 PM 1/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
>There has been recent reference to the "Click of Death" using Zip Drives. As
>someone who just purchased a brand new Dell with an internal Zip Drive (and
>having no previous experience with Zip Drives of any kind), can someone
>elaborate on the "click of death"? I have no idea what this is, or what
>problems I should "anticipate" etc.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Michael
>
>==========================================
>Michael A. Wosnick
>Richmond Hill, Ontario
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