Re: tlug: "click of death"?

[Ulrike Schmidt <798a5047@example.com>]

Thanks a lot to all who responded!

> The problem can be with either the heads *or* the media.  Steve Gibson
> has a Win9x utility that attempts to check for problems.
>
> http://www.spinrite.com/clickdeath.htm

This site is great! Unfortunatley according to the tests the drive is at
fault as well, and I had hoped for the cartridge only ... =-(

Now I will see whether I can get a free replacement from Iomega as they
mention on the site is possible regardless of warranty ... Just that I
don't think I will stand 40 min. waiting at the telephone as seems to be
neccessary in some cases. 

> I also use an MO, and I'm sure you'll get responses from a bunch of people
> recommending that.  The advantage of an MO is that you can put an ext2
> filesystem on it and use it as just another part of your filesystem (like
> the zip), whereas (if I understand correctly) CD RW has to be written from
> start to finish off of a filesystem image kept on your hard disk.

Is this correct? I think I remeber a discussion about this a while ago,
but unfortunately with my zip-disk also my private tlug-archive has
gone, and my search in the archives for "CD" returned "no match for
'CD'". What could it be that I am doing wrong? I did switch to "any" in
the "Match"-field.

Again, thanks a lot to everybody who responded!

Uli
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