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

To: Jerzy Dziedzic who wrote (42338)	1/4/1998 5:19:00 PM
From: Frank Drumond	Respond to of 58324

Jerzy, sorry to hear that you've had problems like that. I agree that every product has some problems. I've actually lost 4 hard disk this year out of about 15 systems. My Iomega experience has been better than my experience with Western Digital or Quantam hard disks.

To: Jerzy Dziedzic who wrote (42338)	1/4/1998 5:27:00 PM
From: FuzzFace	Respond to of 58324

Jerzy. Excellent post. Unfortunately, trying to convince the RoRo's 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> is like trying to convince a Texan to substitute Starbuck's for Folger's.

To: Jerzy Dziedzic who wrote (42338)	1/4/1998 7:56:00 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 58324

>>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. << Jerzy - Interesting. I have experienced the clicking problem only with one particular disk. It was only used in my own Zip drive, every day for more than a year. At one point it began clicking a lot, and sometimes the disk write operation would complete, but sometimes I would just reboot in frustration. I copied the data from the disk without incident, did a LONG reformat using the Zip tools, and the disk has been fine ever since. No more clicking. Just so you know, your Zip disks will be replaced by Iomega if they are actually unreadable now. - Allen