Franz, I had two external Zip drives, both bought new and with the original Zip adapters, and both became effected by the 'Click of Death' after several months of use. I've never heard of the power adapters being involved with this problem. Iomega replaced both drives, but many of my disks were ruined because of the death click, and I lost a great deal of my work (I used the Zips to back up and store some of my work, and that was a mistake).
I had read the warnings about putting the Zips too close to monitors and thought it was yet another stupid excuse from Iomega, but it turned out that reads from, and writes to the Zips became much more reliable when moved away from the monitor (I had had the drives between the monitor and the tower of the 9500). > ...I would like to put a question mark on all the reports on the web that > the > "click of death" is that of a dying disk. Magnetism from monitor or > power supply was also mentioned as possibly distorting the > function of the drive and start this click of death syndrome. > > Could it be possible that an original Zip adapter can loose it's Watt > output > and change the performance of the drive? > > > Franz > > Bangkok -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
