Re: Steve Gibson
All -
Yes, Steve Gibson knows a lot about disk drives. I used his utility, Spin Rite, in the eighties to keep hard drives working well. It was a program that would do a fresh low level format on a hard drive without erasing the data. Basically, it would read the data on a set of sectors into RAM, format the sectors, then put the data back. I never once had a problem with it.
I haven't used Spin Rite in a long time. But I did recently download and use his utility for testing Zip drives. It's free, and I highly recommend it to all Zip owners. The utility will test your drive and media for read/write errors which might indicate problems. Gibson claims that the utility will detect problems which could precede the COD syndrome. I used it on my own Zip Plus drive, and it was fine.
When the Zip 250 comes out, I'm sure Steve Gibson will test it, dissect it, and tell everyone what he has decided. Until he does that, though, no matter how much he knows, he can't reliably say that the drive won't work.
- Allen |
