Iomega zip discs
Quilljar
ago. I do not have an Iomega disc drive anymore. Has anyone got an old one
they can let me have, which would connect to my PC with Virtual RPC fitted?
I will pay cost etc of course.
Or even any advice on how to read them.
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Christopher Jarman
Wyke Hill House
Cheriton Close
Winchester
Hants
SO22 5HN
M Harding
Quilljar <not@home .today> wrote:
> I have found seven old Iomega zip discs in a drawer from about ten
> years ago. I do not have an Iomega disc drive anymore. Has anyone
> got an old one they can let me have, which would connect to my PC
> with Virtual RPC fitted? I will pay cost etc of course. Or even
> any advice on how to read them.
I've sent a private email to you. But I'm not sure whether I've
correctly deciphered your email address.
The address below is OK
Michael Harding
Rev. Preb. M.D. Harding ris...@mdharding.org.uk
JL
> I have found seven old Iomega zip discs in a drawer from about ten years
> ago. I do not have an Iomega disc drive anymore. Has anyone got an old
> one they can let me have, which would connect to my PC with Virtual RPC
> fitted? I will pay cost etc of course.
> Or even any advice on how to read them.
>
>
I've solved a similar problem for my new pc - which has no parallel port
- by buying a 100MByte USB zip drive on e-bay.
It worked a treat.
Jochen
Dr Peter Young
> It worked a treat.
*Warning!* Put not your trust in zip discs. I used to use them for
backup, and was badly let down. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death
With best wishes,
Peter.
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Philip Draper
Dr Peter Young <pny...@ormail.co.uk> wrote:
> On 14 Dec 2009 JL <j...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> Quilljar wrote:
>>> I have found seven old Iomega zip discs in a drawer from about ten years
>>> ago. I do not have an Iomega disc drive anymore. Has anyone got an old
>>> one they can let me have, which would connect to my PC with Virtual RPC
>>> fitted? I will pay cost etc of course.
>>> Or even any advice on how to read them.
>>>
>>>
>> Christopher
>> I've solved a similar problem for my new pc - which has no parallel port
>> - by buying a 100MByte USB zip drive on e-bay.
>> It worked a treat.
> *Warning!* Put not your trust in zip discs. I used to use them for
> backup, and was badly let down. See:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death
In fairness, the 'click of death' only seems to have applied to a
batch of one particular model of drive. Otherwise, all those dire
warnings about the lifetime of Zip discs could apply equally to
floppies.
Philip.
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Philip Draper
David Holden
On 14-Dec-2009, Philip Draper <Phi...@borehamh.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In fairness, the 'click of death' only seems to have applied to a
> batch of one particular model of drive. Otherwise, all those dire
> warnings about the lifetime of Zip discs could apply equally to
> floppies.
Indeed it does. Zip discs are really just high capacity floppies, and
anything where you've got a bit of flimsy plastic film with a coating of
iron oxide and a read/write head rubbing on it and picking up stray bits of
gunge will inevitably have a limited service life.
Zip discs are great for data transfer. Don't' rely on them for backups.
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David Holden - APDL - <http://www.apdl.co.uk>
Dave Symes
Philip Draper <Phi...@borehamh.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In fairness, the 'click of death' only seems to have applied to a
> batch of one particular model of drive. Otherwise, all those dire
> warnings about the lifetime of Zip discs could apply equally to
> floppies.
> Philip.
Not so sure about that, over a number of years I got through three Zip
drives, so doubtfull they were from the same batch,
Dave
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Dave Triffid
Brian Carroll
Bambrough <fred@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
[Snip]
> For comparison, I've just finished copying my ancient music
> cassette tapes to CD. Most of them seem to be in good
> condition, which is more than can be said for my tape deck
> (which is turning into goo).
OT: Try http://www.gbaudio.co.uk/data/belts2.htm for
replacements of the gooey components.
Brian.
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Brian Carroll, Ripon, N Yorks, UK briancarroll at f2s dot com
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David Holden
The worst fault was the read/write heads. If a head comes loose then all the
user sees is that they can't read the disc. So they try another disc. Same
problem. So they try another.....
Each disc they try is effectively destroyed by the damaged drive so they
might wipe out several before they realise it's the drive that's dud. Of
course, if any of those discs contained important data....
Quilljar
Thank-you guys for an interesting thread. Mike Harding is generously sending
me a drive which should read my old discs. I am not relying on them for
backup. It is just that I am curious to know what is on them after ten years
or so...! !
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