> From: Todd Moody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 09:21:55 -0400
> Subject: Re: Zip 100 Drive for PB G3 for sale
>
>> Diane Gamm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Todd, on the reliability question, I've been using zip drives and disks for
>> years -... (snipped) ...the dreaded "click of death" sounds bad, but I
>> actually have never known anyone who has experienced it. (Now, where's that
>> wood to knock on?) - Diane
>
> Hi Diane,
>
> I believe that CoD mainly affected Iomega drives (esp. Zip and Jaz, but maybe
> others) manufactured before 1999 or so... (snipped) ...Equipped with your
> drives' serial numbers, you should be able to check the website to see whether
> any of your drives qualify. In my personal experience, I've had one internal
> IDE 100MB Zip drive that suffered from the CoD (exhibited symptoms in '99),
> and the consequential damage to my Zip disks wasn't obvious until it was too
> late (about a year later); by then, my project data was seriously corrupted.
> During that time, I used the disk in several blue-and-white G3s in a
> multimedia lab, so I wonder whether those drive are kaput now...
>
> http://www.texasatty.com/iomgcod.html contains a very brief synopsis of what
> CoD does. What this page fails to mention is that a disk damaged by an
> affected drive is capable of damaging other drives. Hopefully you'll never
> have to deal with that!
Had to jump in here re: the CoD... I have a 100mb ext. Zip purchased about
1997, and it began clicking late last year... sometimes it clicks and other
times not (I never knew if it is the drive itself, or the individual disks
causing the clicking???) -- Currently waiting for an adapter I ordered to
use this Zip drive with my Wallstreet. -- Now that I see from Todd's post
that it actually damages the disks & contents of the disks, this is a big
concern! Yipes! Maybe I should quit using the zip drive altogether.....
Also, my Dad had given me a burned CD awhile back with a bunch of old stuff
on it, and one of the items was this, below, re: one person's experience
repairing this "clacking" as they called it... I'm not sure if they are
describing the same CoD... What do you guys think of this?
BG
QUOTE: Zip drives: clacking cartridge problem, surprising cure:
Bryan*** writes that, at the high school where he works, 20 out of
the 25 internal Zip drives in their Power Mac 6500s started to fail. The
drives were replaced but many of the replacements also began to fail. The
main symptom was that, after inserting a cartridge, it would make a clacking
sound and fail to mount. They needed to insert a paper clip in the "eject"
hole just to get the cartridge out. The solution?: Take off the two plastic
bevels that cover the access to the Zip drive (not an easy task according to
Bryan). This reveals the eject button (accessible on external Zip drives but
covered up in the 6500). When there is no cartridge in the drive, restart
the Mac and then press this button. Although I see no clear reason why
this should have any effect, Bryan says that almost every drive that
he has done this with now works without a problem.
Updates: Keith*** reports that the same cure (pressing the eject button
when no cartridge is in the drive) fixed the same clacking cartridge problem
he was having on an external Zip drive! This looks promising.
Live and learn. A reader writes: 'This is the standard reset procedure
for all Iomega Jaz and Zip drives. Iomega Tech Support passed this along
about 3 months ago.'"
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