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.

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)?

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??

Thanks.
Lisa Salkovitz Kohn

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