Re: IOmega
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
kmself >It will work. For a while. Jaz is essentially just another SCSI
kmself >device. However neither the media nor the drives are reliable under
kmself >long (or short) term use, in my experience.
jaz drives are some of the biggest pieces of shit ive used. ive yet to
find a good backup..i can never trust a jaz.
kmself >My experience is a Jaz drive and six disks purchased since 1997. I've
kmself >replaced the drive three times, as well as four disks. Under Linux (RH
kmself >4.2, 5.0, 5.2, and Debian Potato), any media ultimately starts returning
kmself >sense read (or is it read sense?) errors after time. When these get
kmself >sufficiently bad, the system locks up.
i've returned about 12 disks, on the last batch(usually return in groups
of 2 or 3) one of them was bad right out of the shrinkwrap
kmself >I recently asked an open session at BALUG what I could do to improve
kmself >operability of the drive under Linux. The consensus response was "tell
kmself >us how far you can throw it".
one good thing about jaz, is as long as iomega stays in business i can
keep RMA'n disks :) gotta love the lifetime warranty.
if you use a drive i suggest you keep all data(thats important) on a more
reliable source for when(not if, when) the disk/drive dies. then its safe
to use jaz
nate
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