From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Thu Oct 15 1998 - 18:35:43 EDT
I have seen that problem beofre, but on HDD's when doing a lap link file
transfer..
everything would come to a screeching halt when laplink got to a certain
file..
never did learn what the problem was.. whatever it was it was associated
with only one file that was misreporting its size..
nick_at_bs28ha.demon.co.uk wrote:
> I'm having big problems with my Zip drive/disk. First, let me put you
> in the picture: I have an IBM ThinkPad 760CD runing Windows 98 with a
> zip drive especially made by VST Technologies to fit into the ultrabay
> of the ThinkPad (swappable wit the CD-ROM drive). The VST zip drive
> has been working wonderfully for the past 10 months (with 15 zip
> disks) and is a lot faster than my old parallel port Zip drive and I
> don't need to lug around a mains adapter.
>
> Last week, to my horror, whilst transferring some files from a zip
> disk, the whole system crashed - no mouse movement, pressing
> 'ctrl-alt-del' is unresponsive, the only alternative is to flick the
> power switch. When this occurs, the drive's light comes on
> intermittently together with a whirring sound (just like when the
> drive is searching for data normally) for a few seconds, then quiet
> for a few seconds. This is repeated over and over again. Meanwhile, I
> cannot do anything with the machine unless I turn it off and reboot.
>
> Both Iomega's diagnostic and full scandisk showed no errors. This
> problem is 100% reproducible every time a particular folder is
> accessed - even just for viewing the contents of the folder. No other
> folders on that zip disk or any other disks seem to be affected. On
> deletion of the affected folder (and losing my data!), the problem is
> cured.
>
> Have you seen this problem before? Is this problems with my drive or
> is it confined to that particular zip disk? If it is the disk, is it
> safe to use that disk again? Since I store a lot of
> important data on my zip disks, it is essential that this does not
> occur again. Therefore, please advise what I should do to prevent this
> from occurring again.
>
> Thank you in advance for your kind assistance in this matter.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick
> nick_at_bs28ha.demon.co.uk
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