Re: [TCLUG:14864] power-eject floppy drives for PCs?

[Robert Sinland <rsinland@gvtel.com>]

>
> >         Out of curiosity, what's so bad about Zip drives?
>
> I don't know about their 250MB Zip or JAZ drives.  My experience comes from using
> their 100MB Zip drives.  Just before I had posted that letter, I had called Iomega
> to replace my second Zip drive which I had only had for about three months.  They
> suffer from a condition called "Click Death".  I would not recommend their purchase.
>
> --
> Perry Hoekstra
>

  I would also like to know more about that.  I have what must be one of the  _first
generation_ of Zip drives out.  Had it for roughly three years now give or take a month,

and it still works well under both Linux and Winsux.
Parallel interface Zip-100...  My only beef with it to date is that the media for it is
a bit
spendy.
RS