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Re: "Click of death" strikes Iomega



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Lionel Issen wrote:
> 
> Vitaly:
> 
> Thanks for bringing this to my attention.  I read the article, and it seems
> that this affects mostly Zip drives that are carted arround and not those
> that stay in one place.
> 
> Lionel Issen
> 
> At 04:43 PM 1/31/98 -0800, Vitaly Larichev wrote:
> >For those concerned, see yesterday's article "Click of death" strikes
> >Iomega"
> >                By Paul Festa
> >                January 30, 1998, 5:15 p.m. PT
> >
> >on C|NET at http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,18622,00.html (to get it,
> >don't just click on the link shown - paste it instead into URL window,
> >it needs complete name of the file 0,4,18622,00.html . For some reason
> >my browser doesn't make it).
> >
> >The message there is:
> >"Users of Iomega's Zip drives are reporting serious malfunctions in
> >their drives and disks in a problem that has come to be known as the
> >"click of death."
> >
> >
> >                              Cheers, Vitaly
> >
> >
> >

Mine has never worked from day 1. None of my Pc's ever managed to recognize 
it, and Iomega support never dealt with my problem.
I just dinged them as a consequence.

Gwenn