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

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (56914)	6/29/1998 10:08:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>Well five more bad Zip disks for me folks. That is 8 in the last month or so. I use to have 25 disks. One was destroyed from a bad internal Zip drive (Click of death) the others were bad Fat files that could not be repaired. The strange thing is most of these disks were hardly used. According to Iomega's tech guy, if you Zip drive clicks as soon as a disk is inserted that is the Click of Death. If it clicks when you try to access data on the disk after it was inserted, then that is a bad fat table.<< Sire - The FAT, or File Allocation Table, often redundantly called the FAT table, is just a set of data written on the disk. If 7 out of 8 of your defective disks had bad FATs, then reformatting them in an working Zip drive would fix the problem. Or, you could try using the Norton Utilities, or other such data recovery software to see if the FAT could be fixed. In any case, corrupted FATs are generally the result of software problems on the PC. That isn't really an Iomega QC issue. If the Zip's heads were damaged, possibly by the one bad disk, then conceivably the drive could have caused the problem. I've lost floppy drives that way. It's also possible that the heads on your drive have just been knocked out of alignment, and your disks would work perfectly in another Zip drive. Have you tried them in another drive? I agree with your advice about CD-R disks. I think it's important to point out that tapes are not infallible either. They can break, stretch, or suffer from "drop-outs" when bits of the magnetic coating flake off. Anyone who has any data which he or she really doesn't want to lose should be sure to make at least two copies in addition to the original, no matter what media are being used. - Allen PS: Good news about the settlement today. Sounds like a win-win solution to me.