OT i know, but.. :)
I've had a parallel port zip drive for just over a year now - it's used a
couple of
times a week at uni, transported about a fair bit (in a proper case, but
that's not a lot of protection), and the disks are often carried about
uncased.
I've not had a single problem, except that the thing is so damn slow and
uses up all the CPU while it transfers :) I stopped using it for backups
when I bought a CDR drive. (buy an external SCSI or internal IDE zip drive
rather than the PP one)
A couple of friends have external PP drives too, all without problems. It
seems to be something that affected the really early drives.
Simon
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, J. Coon wrote:
>
> Magic wrote:
> >
> > no. I currently use a parallel port 100Mb ZIP drive which has a data
> > throughput of 380kbytes/sec sustained. As it costs only £70 and offers much
> > better facilities being a dedicated drive, I
> Has anyone experianced the "Click of death" Syndrom on ZIP drives? I
> have one but haven't used it very much. I friend ran into this "Click
> of Death" and lost a couple of his archives. Bummer.
>
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