[dba-Tech] ZIP drive incompatibilities

This a floppy thing coming back.

These kind of incombatibilities can also exist with classic 1.44
Floppies.
It can be due to a drive head aligment thats wrong or getting wrong. 
Typical is that when the disk is formatted and used in the same drive
everything works fine.
Using this disk in another drive does not work, unless you format it in
that drive and it will work in that drive...
But if you take it back to the first one it can become unreadable again.

You  need to pinpoint the drive which is giving you the trouble...

This is still even true 12 years ago and today for floppies.
Read does often works but as soon as you write one bit, it becomes
corrupted...


Erwin


-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] Namens Mark L. Breen
Verzonden: dinsdag 21 oktober 2003 10:20
Aan: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Onderwerp: Re: [dba-Tech] ZIP drive incompatibilities


Hello Bettina,

The only immediate suggestion is are you cleaning the heads?

Is it happening with all the drives or just one

Is there a trend that for eg, the ZIP 250's do not tend to like ZIP 100
disks?

Is the customer using a different drive to your's?

Have you sent your questions along with the above answers to the
manufacturers, although I know that they can be slow sometimes.

I do not know if this is any help, but it is the line of questioning
that you need to be making.

Let us know,

Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bettina Giehr" <allcop.pc at t-online.de>
To: <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 8:06 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] ZIP drive incompatibilities


> Hi techies,
>
> we are having problems with different ZIPs : We receive about 20 ZIPs 
> a
day
> ranging from ZIP 100 to ZIP 250, various manufacturers. We have Iomega

> and Fuji ZIP drives. The problem is that suddenly a ZIP that has been
processed
> many days without errors is no longer readable. The message that pops 
> up
is
> something like 'ZIP is not formatted, do you want to format Y/N?'. We 
> send the ZIP back to the customer marked as unprocessed and he yells 
> that of course he can read the data, what's happening ? He swears he 
> did not
format
> the ZIP or do any other weird thing. By the way this is happening with
many
> customers, not just one.
> Does anybody know about incompatibilities or maybe patches or 
> servicepacks or anything that can help ? This is really a big problem 
> for us. TIA
>
> Bettina
>
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