Re: Zip Drives & all that malarkey

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

>  As I mentioned in the other thread I posted tonight, I`ve set up my
> flatmates printer on my parallel port, to see if the port is dead.
>
>  Printer is fine. Nay bother at all.
>  Zip drive isn`t.
>  I tried my flatmates zip drive (including changing the cable, and using
> his disks as well) and got the same problem with his drive.
>
>  Now, I`ve managed to write varying quanities of info to the drive.
> Sometimes 6Mb, sometimes 60Mb.
>  No matter how much, it always ends with the same problem - I/O errors,
> and the drive locking up - forcing a reboot.

Hmm. Still sounds like hardware to me though... not really much I can
suggest, other than try swapping stuff out. Dunno really :( I don't believe
it's a software thing, anyway.

Cheers,

Alex.

PS You don't overclock, do you?


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