The ppl at http://www.thirdeyesp.com/jatin/iomega/ think that the clicking
thing is a Zip specific virus that spreads from Zip to Zip, but I've only
lost 2 - and I use my Zip drive quite intensively.
I would blame more the Zip media as being inferior, and not being able to
take the amount of stress that is placed on it.
Don
>If you have a ZIP drive, or know someone who does, please read this.
>
>I'm urging everyone on this list to back up any and all data currently on
>ZIP disks to another media. In the last three days I've lost over a gig
>of email, data, photo scans, and source code. Only about a tenth of it is
>archived elsewhere. And I'm just a little unhappy. Luckily, my drive was
>under warranty (by 3 days), but the data on 5 of my archive disks is now
>GONE.
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I really hope Iomega figures out how to retrieve info on those disks. I'm
>sure the data is still physically there, but if I can't get to it, that's
>not much consolation.