Re: SyQuest SparQ 1.0 GB Drive

["Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com>]

Well, I'm probably not going to get it.  I'll keep trying to win a Zip 250 
Scsi on ebay...

I've read a bunch of horror stories about this drive.  And they aren't 
selling on ebay either...

<anoneds@netscape.net> wrote in message 
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>I owned one of those. It was more prone to the "click of death" than
> the Iomega Zip drives of the time.
>
> What a piece of crap (at least mine was). Disks would get stuck in the
> drive, it would whirr up and down trying to load one and give up,
> flashing its little pathetic light. Then the disk was unreadable and
> you'd lose everything. Sometimes it sounded like a high-pitched buzzsaw
> (I could imagine my data getting buzz-sawed, with bits going
> everywhere).
>
> Must say the earlier Syquest 200mb drives (with larger cartridges) were
> much more stable, Been using one for several years without problems.
>
> And been using a 100mb Zip drive for a couple years without a problem
> as well.
>
> Hope it is really cheap.
>