If it wasn't Click of Death, it was one of a handful of other problems the drives and disks suffered because Iomega, full of itself after a few years of making reasonable money from their well-engineered products, decided they could build something a bit less well-engineered, which would sell to more people for a bigger overall profit margin. It's close to, if not the least reliable data storage format from that era, save for perhaps a few instant flops, such as Castlewood Orb.
Largely, jt isn't wrong about my stance on Zip. I think this might be the thread jt is referring to: In this case specifically: A Power Macintosh G4 will have USB ports, to which you can connect an SD/CF card reader, USB based external hard disk, or flash drives, all of which are going to be more reliable. Maybe you can sell the rest of the disks on the trading post or eBay. There's no good reason to have it on most vintage Macs, when networking hardware is faster, more convenient, and reliable. :approve:Īs predicted, my recommendation is to take the drive out and throw it out, or let it sit and never put another disk in. Long story short, I'll play the Russian side in Germany any time, but the Sabras are a different story entirely. Not cool at all, but the Israelis managed to pull that off and then some when surprise attacked in the Yom Kippur War and then beat the Arab hoards of Soviet Tanks all the way back to the far edge of the Golan Heights in one of most epics feats of arms in the history of mobile warfare. That's a riff on the Cold War theory that "numbers have a quality all their own." Which refers to the situation that a whole bunch of NATO's really excellent Armored Fighting Vehicles were tasked with holding off unrelenting hoards of their decidedly inferior Russian counterparts at the Fulda Gap. He may even begrudgingly admit that my position that ubiquity has a quality all its own may have some merit.
#How to eject a cd from a mac powerbook g4 zip
That was fairly recent and there may be a thread about it?Ĭory's gonna insist that the Zip is the most unreliable and about the least cost effective form of removable storage from the era. ISTR chewing up a drive with a 90s era death clicked Zip100 disk, but don t remember what drive model was affected at all. I've got a several in service: original SCSI100, a SCSI/IDE version and a few internal IDE250s in service along with a pair of USB 250s.SCSI100s and a pair of IDE250s after market adapted to SCSI, I don't any drive induced problems at all after having the second of my original pair replaced under warranty after having chewed up a couple of disks. He was reputed to have been horrified that a very important component had been removed. They had to call the original design engineer back to address the problem. Buy a USB250 and a SCSI100 and have at it.Ĭlick of Death appears to have been due to the deletion of a component deemed unnecessary when the original drive was kicked into high production. Pick up a USB250 and have at it! But toss the disks you tried in it just in case. If the drive's not working at all, just replace it with and IDE interface Zip250.
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