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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Wiz who wrote (41626)	12/28/1997 9:37:00 PM
From: Jim Munroe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>Finally, the silver bullet is found. A software add-on with the Zip tools could easily detect the disks with IOM specific ID's. Just imagine sliding in an XHD and in a few seconds it rejects out. The software with this capibility is no doubt in the works. Let Nomai ramp up and spend the money on materials and equipment. Realize that IOM's management is livid at this problem and will no doubt spend sleepless hours finding ways to destroy the XHD's compatibility. << This is an excellent solution if and only if the id's already exist on all current Iomega disks. All disks currently in use have to remain useable. If the existing 100,000,000 or so Iomega disks won't work in new drives, this is not what the military calls "acceptable collateral damage". I have no idea whether Iomega foresaw this problem and put some kind of readable code on the disks from the beginning.