STeve Andre' <andres@msu.edu> said -
> I would not use a Jaz drive for anything really important.
Yes I do know exactly how you feel, I've been burned several times
myself. But I do now have three known good and known to be stable
drives and a huge box full of unused media, so .....
Oddly enough Iomega is now in the data recovery business, even tho
it'd be a very cold day in hell before I'd fork over one more cent
to those bums for anything, at all.
> I think Jaz drive media always suffered from
> water problems.
No, that's not it. At the risk of making it much harder for me to
find more good drives, the ones that work are the "factory
refurbishbed" ones. The brand new in the box stuff is usually crap.
I use these alomst every days to move sound effects files to and from
Microware (not Mac) OS-9, cause the only other driver that even exists
for OS-9 as I have it is for the Orb drive. Which I've never even tried
cause I already had too much money in Iomega by the time Orb rolled
around.
> I'd stay away from them for anything
> other than transfer operations, where if the disk produces an error you
> can get the original data again (not exactly useful in most cases).
In the Jaz world once you've seen any sort of error at all, you are
almost always pretty well screwed. I always make at least two complete
copies. And if one of those dies, I would never put the other copy in
that same drive... In fact at that point I'd probably sacrafice a couple
new disks just to confirm the drive has gone bad.
Billy Y..
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