I have read on the Iomega site that the disks are compatible on the 250M drive,
but you could expect a performance hit.  This is because the heads on a
250M drive are smaller to allow more data to be recorded on a 250M
disk. When writing to a 100M disk, it has to write the same track
more than once.  See the other answers for specs.
                      Rick Glazier
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From: Will Stephenson <[log in to unmask]>
> I have a client who recently purchased a P2-400 Dell (running NT 4 w/SP 4
> workstation) with 128 ECC RAM, an 8G harddrive,  and an internal (IDE) Zip
> 250 MB drive for use as a file server for a Foxpro application.
>
> When writing to a 100MB Zip disk, 100 MB of data takes around 9 minutes.
> When writing to a 250 MB disk, the same amount of data takes about 90
> seconds. Has anyone one on the list seen or heard of a similar situation ?
> Or would anyone have an idea why ?

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