ZIP drives (was: power-eject floppy drives for PC?)

["Trainor, Kevin T." <Kevin.T.Trainor@norwest.com>]

Perry Hoekstra wrote:
>>> 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
>> problemis confined to the newer drives and not the older ones, thus my
lack of problems :)
>> (yet)
>That could very well be, I have an older Zip that I have not had problems
with.  It is
>tough to tell someone, however, to purchase an older version of something
because the
>newer one is junk.
	How old is old? I bought my parallel-port external ZIP in 1998, and
have had
no trouble with it whatsoever - and considering that the system it's plugged
into 
sits right over the heat vent in a room full of (pet) mice, I'd think if I
were 
going to have problems with hair, dust & other contaminants I would have had
them
by now. 
	OTOH, I haven't gotten it to work with Corel Linux yet, so...:)

Kevin Trainor
"Some people like to go out dancing
But other people like us, well we gotta work."
	--Lou Reed, "Sweet Jane"



All opinions my own, not Norwest's.
-or Wells Fargo's either, for that matter.