26 Feb
2008
26 Feb
'08
4:26 p.m.
On 26 Feb 2008 at 16:01, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
Not sure if this helps, but Iomega produced a SCSI
"insider" (if that is
the correct name used for marketing) which was a drive with a removable
cartridge of 196608 blocks. The drives were the size of a 3 1/2" disk
drive and the media were just a bit bigger than a 3 1/2" floppy and about
twice as thick.
Are you perhaps thinking of the Zip or Jaz drives? Both were
available in SCSI (as well as other interfaces), but the Bernoullis
predated them quite a bit and later models of the Bernoulli were
fully SCSI compatible.
The Jaz was an execrable excuse for a removable media drive. My
Syquest Sparq is still going strong, but the two Jaz drives I have
are paperweights. OTOH, the last time I fired up my dual 90MB
Bernoulli box, it worked flawlessly.
IIRC, Steve Gibson made some waves with his Iomega "Click of Death"
diagnosis of the Zip drive.
Cheers,
Chuck