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Lionel,
They replaced mine all right. It cost me $150 because it was 2 weeks out of
warranty. Telling that this was a known problem in a certain percentage of those
manufactured and this should be as is an auto recall fell on deaf ears. One guy
got so mad that he established a web site just for people to tell their horror
stories on.
Lionel Issen wrote:
> A few months back there was a discussion about the Iomega problem. Iomega
> is/was replacing ZIP d rives that developed this problem. I think there
> may still be some information at the Iomega web site. Also, Iomega will
> respond to phone calls about this problem.
>
> Lionel
>
> At 09:42 AM 6/8/98 +0200, J.W.E Roberts wrote:
> >Same thing here; however JAZ-Drive. The thingy is expensive, media too,
> and utterly unreliable.
> >J.W.E. Roberts
> >
> >Robert Duplain wrote:
> >
> >> You're very couragous to rely on zip drives to secure you data.
> >>
> >> To my experience Omega Zip Drive is UNreliable. Some month ago mine
> started "clicking" and scraped disks where I had saved valuable data.
> Nobody knew why this common phenomena occurred. Iomega just ignored the
> problem (look at their stock value).
> >>
> >> I resolved the enigma by putting the Zip Drive in the oven at 450 deg.
> for 1 hour. It does not work anymore by I know why.
> >>
> >> Believe me, you better get a second hard drive and backup on it, it is
> much cheaper per Meg, faster and much more reliable.
> >>
> >> Robert
> >>
> >> -----Message d'origine-----
> >> De: Chris Henderson [SMTP:cjhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >> Date: 4 juin, 1998 02:46
> >> À: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Objet: Re: Power-cut
> >>
> >> I agree with your backup method:
> >>
> >> I use Explorer weekly to copy equis stock files & portfolios to a Zip
> drive.
> >> I include the MS explorer and formula files every now & then. I changed
> >> computers recently and installed MStock onto the new drive, then copied
> the
> >> Zip drive files (not compressed or 'Zip backups') into the fresh Equis
> >> directory. Whn I started MS on the new computer everything was there
> >> exactly as on the old one.
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Part 1.2 Type: application/ms-tnef
> >> Encoding: base64
> >
> Lionel Issen
> lissen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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