On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Tom Gardner wrote:
On 29 Nov
2009 at 14:27, Fred Cisin wrote:
> How about their "Jaz" drives?
> their "click" drives? In which the "click of death" was
administered
> DURING manufacturing.
I thought the "click of death" phenomena was a ZIP problem and not a JAZ
problem. I also never found a good statement of what was the underlying
problem(s) that led to the "click of death" phenomena! Does anyone
really
know what was going on (inner crash stop crash, head retract/relaunch;
solenoid lock/unlock, both, other) and why (loss of servo control
probably,
but why loose it and not regain it). Comments?
Pure intellectual curiosity only :-)
I had a professor who described Iomega devices as being named for the
noises they make when they die.
Don't forget Iomega's so-called "backup software"!
One of my clients had been doing his nightly backup on an Iomega
Travan drive, using the software that came with it. I did a restore
test when he came to us, and found that most of his tapes were so worn
there were clear stretches of mylar mid-tape! The Iomega software had
never thrown a single write error.
We used to call Iomega stuff in general "write-only media".
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