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

To: Frank Drumond who wrote (42322)	1/4/1998 4:40:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>My experience is that the clicking problem is related to interchange issues. << The SCSI Zip drive was hooked up to my E-Mu sampler. The termination switch was switched to "On". The yellow Iomega brand disc was brand new. I formatted it using the E-Mu prescribed method. It merely installs a proprietary E-Mu file system on it, and takes literally 2 seconds. The disc was written to twice. One file 8.4 MB, the other about 3 MB. I loaded these files once, no problem. We had to load again later, and the drive started its clicking fit. We switched to another Zip drive, and it ran. Same setup. Same disc. It was definitely the drive.

To: Frank Drumond who wrote (42322)	1/4/1998 5:03:00 PM
From: Jerzy Dziedzic	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 58324

RE: My experience is that the clicking problem is related to interchange issues. These disks can get swapped between many drives so any tolerances of track writes can become an issue. I believe the "click" is causes as the drive tries to recalibrate head position. I've never seen a data loss as a result of this. Not sure if you were on a PC but eject is locked out when the disk is being read, this is done so that you won't corrupt it by ejecting while flushing buffers.>> You are right, clicks happen when the drive tries to recalibrate its head position. Unfortunately it can cause a data loss as I found out. I also do not think it is an interchange issue, since I had exactly the same problem with my drive and disks originally written with the same drive. I tried to solve the problem for two weeks but nothing helped and I had to replace the drive. In the meantime I lost important data on five zip disks, and three disks out of five are not readable anymore and cannot be formated. They cannot be accessed from the operating system and even my SCSI card disk utility (BIOS based) cannot format them. It does not change my opinion about Iomega, though. I just bought another thousand shares recently. I work with computers 12 hours a day and number of floppies I lost during last couple of years is countless. I had to replace two floppy drives not long ago. I have used a CD-R drive for a year or so and I lost a number of disks during burning, some due to my errors some due to hardware problems. What I am trying to say is that media and drive errors and problems are unavoidable and happen with any storage system. It can be a problem for Iomega only if the failure rate is much higher than that of other removable storage manufacturers. As far as I (we) know it is not, and any particular problem I can have does not affect substantially Iomega's bottom line as long as it is not a common problem. If anyone of you knows an error-free storage system, please let me know and I will invest in this company immediately. Until then I will stay long IOM. Just my 2c. Jerzy