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At 06:35 PM 4/8/99 , Lisa Salkovitz Kohn wrote:
>Is anyone here an expert on the Iomega ZipDrive "Click of Death" problem? I
>got the dreaded clicks after while trying to backup an 8 meg file to a Zip
>cartridge. I ran a diagnostic (tip.exe) and it announced that either the
>cartridge or the drive was kaput. I ran the diagnostic with another
>cartridge, and it came out reasonably well ... except that the first and
>biggest hiccup came at about the same point (22 minutes into the test) that
>the first disk blew up.
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>I understand that the Click of Death problem has to do with the drive's
>"heads" getting terminally misaligned, so my question is -- do I have a
>permanent problem or not? Is the drive now going to miswrite at this
>22-minute point on all my cartridges, so that I should be trying to get a
>replacement from Iomega (I think that I am 3 months beyond warranty, of
>course)?
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>Is this a big enough problem that I should be switching my archive media to
>something else, and if so, what? (and if not now, when? <g>) Are more
>recently manufactured Zip drives more reliable??
The best place for great information about the "Click of Death"
is a web site run by Steve Gibson: http://grc.com/clickdeath.htm
He has some great information about dealing with the Click
of Death on his site.
Bob Wright
The NOSPIN Group, Inc
http://nospin.com - http://nospin.org
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