On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:18:59 -0600, "Rev. George G. Guillory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I bought a Zip 100 back when they first came out. I don't use it extensively, maybe 2 or 3 times a month.
I keep one 100MB and one 250MB drive on each of my primary machines. No probs yet with a 250MB model but *lots* of trouble with almost each of my 100MB models. I do just about the same thing Rev. George: back up to both drives. Rev. George had reset instructions here:
To reset the Zip, shut down the Mac. Reboot and hold in the eject button on the front of the drive until the Mac is finished booting. On an internal drive you'll have to remove the faceplate unless the faceplate has a paperclip hole. This hole will be right over the button. This resets the drive heads. So far this has worked for me every time.
And it did for me, with two external 100MB drives. Mine at home started clacking badly but would always recognize the disk after many clicks. I reset my home drive this morning, and it's behaving.
Hope this helps someone.
I tried Rev. George's tip with a 100MB drive that had destroyed two Zip disks (on their way back to Fuji and Maxell) that I was certain had Click of Death, and it's resurrected. I backed up my PowerBook 170 and Classic II and put it right back on our radio station's 6400, from whence it came. Works. For now. I still don't trust Zips.
Now, here's another Macintosh myth, fable or legend that someone else can help clear up. My original Macintosh guru taught me that when hard drives are formatted either vertically or horizontally, that's the way we should continue to operate them. Upon the first prob I had with a Zip disk, my guru told me to reformat a disk vertically and continue to operate the drive in the same manner. I reformatted a Zip disk with the drive positioned vertically and have done so ever since, until I bought an internal drive for my 6500/G3/Sonnet 400 and had problems (DiskWarrior kept those disks from being destroyed). Any possible truth that reading from and/or writing to disks formatted horizatonally or vertically has anything to do with failure rate?
BTW, I'm using the Iomega 4.0.2 software on the machines pertinent to this list.
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