Comment on How do I not kill my Iomega ZIP drive I just got? (The experiences I've heard of scare me)

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user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Well, yeah. That’s the one I fear.

But there seems to be 2 ways it can happen.

  1. Non catastrophic - misaligned write destroying factory low level formatting
  2. Ripped off drive heads

And I also found one blog post where it was caused by the 4 plastic prongs getting bent due to a stiff shutter on one of the disks, which was fixable by bending those back: www.siber-sonic.com/mac/Zip250fix.html

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