5 Dec
2009
5 Dec
'09
3:29 a.m.
Dunno. But several years ago Spinrite salvaged a dead 60 gig IDE drive for me. Long enough
to get the data off. The drive is now an example of how drives are made (cut open and
exposed).
And Gibson (totally off-topic, and way beyond 10 years ago) was probably the best speaker
the San Diego Computer Society ever had at its annual Computer Fair (apologies to all the
other great speakers whom I won't name).
Vern Wright
--- On Fri, 12/4/09, geoffrey oltmans <oltmansg at bellsouth.net> wrote:
From: geoffrey oltmans <oltmansg at
bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: Iomega Click Of Death (was Different take on 10 Yr. 'RULE')
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 3:09 PM
Slightly off topic, but wasn't
Spinrite shown to be pretty much a snake oil product at one
point?
________________________________
From: Vernon Wright <vern4wright at yahoo.com>
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Fri, December 4, 2009 4:29:21 PM
Subject: RE: Iomega Click Of Death (was Different take on
10 Yr. 'RULE')
Steve Gibson (Spinrite, Shields Up, etc.) has a really good
discussion of the ZIP drive and how and when it fails.
This link takes you to his software for the problem (I
think it's one of his freebies, but I haven't used my ZIP
drives in 5+ years). But below that is his discussion of the
anatomy of the drives and the reasons for the Click (which
is what those drives ought to be renamed).
http://www.grc.com/tip/clickdeath.htm
Vern Wright
--- On Fri, 12/4/09, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>
wrote:
being
From: David Griffith <dgriffi at
cs.csubak.edu>
Subject: RE: Iomega Click Of Death (was Different take
on 10 Yr. 'RULE')
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and
Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 10:30 AM
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Tom Gardner
wrote:
ZIP
> 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 problem and not a JAZ
> problem.? I also never found a good
statement of
what was the underlying
head
problem(s) that led to the "click of
death"
phenomena!? Does anyone really
> know what was going on (inner crash stop crash, 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 named for the
noises they make when they die.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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