Konami Man wrote:
>
> Damn! Now I'm having problems with my SCSI ZIP drive. I bought it a year and
> half ago, and the disk is released and retaken often in the middle of the
> read process, causing the computer to hang (this is the "click of death",
> right?). And I'm not the first problem having these problems.
>
> If we add this to the problems with the ZIP plus that someone told some
> weeks ago (problems when connecting more than one device to the SCSI chain),
> maybe we can conclude that ZIP drives are not reliable devices. So if
> someone is planning to buy one, I recommend to buy better an alternative
> device (I heard that MOs works fine) if possible (it is somehow expensiver).
It's right. MOs works fine.
Do you know another device called "PD"? Is like "MO", an
opticalmagnetic disc based device.
In my humble opinion, a PD driver is better than MO because
when you buy that you get a fast CD-ROM drive too, but you
can put only a PD or only a CD in that drive in the same
time.
I perceived which in fast CDROMs, greater than 12x, the
transfer rate is high but the acess time is very high too (a
few seconds). But in my PD drive, the transfer rate is high
and the acess time is very low, you can get the short files
quickly using PD drive when you need to wait some SECONDs to
get short files in normal fast CDROM drive.
HOWEVER, for multimidia aplications MO is better than PD
because MO is faster than PD. The transfer rate of MO is
equal to a normal Harddisks (I don't know the values, may be
4Mb/s) and the transfer rate of PD (the drive which I have
here) is 518 Kb/s~1141 Kb/s in PD mode and 1500
Kb/s~3000Kb/s in CDROM mode.
Best Regards.
Alex Mitsio Sato
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