On Mar 11, 2018, at 18:53, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 03/11/2018 02:20 PM, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
The higher-capacity Zip disks have reliability problems. I won't go near them for my own use for that reason. And Jaz drives, for all of their attractiveness, are all but useless.
What sort of problems afflict the Jaz drives? I have several here, but haven't used any of them for quite a while.
They just plain crash, if memory serves.
Yeah, in my experience, they just stop working. I haven't been able to tell yet if it's the media or the drive that dies most often (small sample size), but at this point I mostly only use Jaz disks when I need to transport something from one machine to another or mount a scratch monkey. - Dave