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

[Robert Sinland <rsinland@gvtel.com>]

>
> > > Heh. A client asked if he could do backups on a zip drive.  I had
> > > problems not starting to laugh out loud at him ;)
> >
> >         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.
>

 Sorry for the spam, but after minimal research on the problem, it would seem that the
problem
is confined to the newer drives and not the older ones, thus my lack of problems :)
(yet)

 To another unrelated topic, has anyone else heard about the free release of BeOs 5?
Here is a link for those interested.
http://www.be.com/products/freebeos/

RS