On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 02:05:41PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > Unfortunately, I must agree with this. I have had a 2gb jaz for 1.5 > years or so. I've replaced all of my disks twice, and the drive 4 > times. Granted, iomega is good about replacing the stuff, paying > shipping both ways and such, and when the disks and/or drive fails, you > only lose a few files, it is a big pain in the butt. I still have my > jaz drive, I use it seldomly. When it does work, which, for fairness, > is most of the time, it is great, but don't bank on being able to > recover the media. I use it as temporary space. > > Iomega did tell me though that the problem could be related to a > compatibility with my adaptec 2940u2w, which at the time was an embedded > controller. They had patches avalible, or, maybe adaptec had patches > avalible, but it didn't matter anyways, since they were only for the > retail 2940. >
This guy at http://grc.com has written a utility to check if you jaz/zip is about to take a dump. Unfortunately, it's written in assembly and for Windows. However, he's got some good info on the unreliable and plain defective IOMega JAZ and ZIP drives. Maybe with a little prodding, he'll port his utility to Linux, et al. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+