RE: Click of Death claims 5

rkm ( rkm@marshall.net )
Sat, 31 Jan 1998 21:12:20 -0500

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ZIP drives on NT have caused me so much trouble that I quit using them. =
I got burned on the IDE vs ATAPI thing and haven't gone back... lots of =
trouble with the parallel port version before that... enough was enough.

Richard Marshall
http://www.marshall.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Lloyd Jr. [SMTP:don@lloyd.org]
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 1998 8:50 PM
To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com
Subject: Re: Click of Death claims 5

I have lost 2 disks to the "Click of Death" - one almost a year ago, and
the other in the last week. Both Zip disks had seen a lot of use, and =
one
had been in a dusty/smoky environment. The rest of my Zip media (15 =
carts
or so) is fine.

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.
<snip>
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.

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