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To: BillHoo who wrote (9062)	3/3/1998 11:45:00 PM
From: soup	Respond to of 213173

<<<They eat my cartridges and the data is irretrievable.>>> At our store, we recommend the Jazz drives made by LaCie. Their cases have internal fans to cool the mechanism/media. Heat related failure is also the reason we don't recommend internally mounted Jazz drives. soup

To: BillHoo who wrote (9062)	3/4/1998 8:36:00 AM
From: Linda Kaplan	Respond to of 213173

Bill, I came to the exact same conclusions as you regarding how to stop the devouring of the jaz carts by the jaz drives, BUT it stopped working for me. It's quite possible I was rough on them, despite my attempts at care. I have a serious space and clutter problem. I started with one Performance, when two of them consecutively did their eating thing, Zone gave me a third free exchange for an IOM. The Performance brand had internal fans, so I thought they'd be better, but they were the first ones I tried. When the IOM replacement failed IOM themselves gave me a replacement and at that time I bought a second from Warehouse -- thinking for backup of carts and for use of one while another might be being repaired. When those two failed IOM gave me replacements. I am sending them a huge batch of ruined carts this week, but am not sure I even want to try to use them. One problem is that IOM uses their own proprietary format, so when the data can't be accessed by the drive, Norton will destroy it, if you try to fix with Norton. I only learned this from IOM recently. I consistently found it impossible to repair these carts once the drive caused one single bad spot on the cart. I need a much more sturdy alternative to jaz. Games are good. I haven't tried that one, thank goodness. I use Windows for Newport, which helps me manage the stocks I manage with AIM. When you talk to Apple's ad agency, suggest they include a copy of Wallpaper, too. :-) Linda

To: BillHoo who wrote (9062)	3/4/1998 10:38:00 AM
From: HerbVic	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

<<They eat my cartridges and the data is irretrievable.>> <<strict conditions under which my Jaz runs.>> I can vouch that the SyQuest ezFlyer 230 is equally temperamental. Another couple of rules: ALWAYS keep the cartridges in their cases. NEVER leave a cartridge in the drive when not in use. Also, it is worth noting that pre-formatted cartridges are not reliable. Reformat before trusting data to them. If bad sectors are reported, return it for exchange. Good hunting, market investors. Happy Apple blossom Spring, Apple investors. HerbVic