I've also had a Zip drive for several years - since just after they came
out.  It has worked fine all that time and I've never had any problems with
any of the disks.  I've heard rumors of the "click-o-death" problem but
never actually known anyone who had it happen to them.  I also remember
warnings about making sure to never power on a drive with a disk in it.

At 09:30 PM 12/31/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I have had a Zip Drive for over two years and I only had the click of death
>once. I threw the disk away, so I was never sure if it was correctable or
>not. I remember reading somewhere that it was usually caused by leaving A
>Zip Disk in a powered off Zip Disk drive. My 2 cents worth.
>

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