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 >[log in to unmask] PCBUILD only works if you contribute. Send your messages to be posted to: [log in to unmask]