On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 02:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think "click of DEATH" says it all, unless you're a necromancer. If > someone knows how to revive such a zip drive I'd be happy to hear how. > On > the other hand, have you tried using another zip DISK? It may be > faulty, > not the drive.
This is somewhat OT but totally relevant to your question: *Whatever you do* DO NOT try another zip disk that has important data on it. Try a blank one or one with a few useless files. If it is the click of death, it will kill every zip disk you place in the thing. About 6 years ago, I went through a complicated legal procedure against Iomega and Gateway for the Click of Death. At the height of my dealings with Gateway warranty & support dept., I went through 4 zip drives in one month, then a new motherboard, and the damned things still died. A disk clicked to death can even potentially "spread" the click of death to an unaffected drive! I finally gave in, and have not purchased or used an Iomega (or Gateway) product since. A group of us successfully identified which mechanisms caused the problem (tended to be internal IDE models only, made is Malaysia if I remember correctly), and even what the supposed problem was (a misaligned head). Iomega and Gateway never made good on the loss of the drives, let alone the data I lost on the two vital zip disks initially affected by the problem. Syquest eventually offered some of us free drives by sending them our dead zip drives, and all I can say is that it's a shame Syquest didn't last. Thank goodness for CD-RW and NFS mounts! --Chris -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
