[tropine]

I realize this topic isn't likely to provoke many responses, but I do hope someone with some knowledge and experience on the subject can help me out:

I got an internal SCSI Jaz 1GB drive some time ago, maybe 3 or more years by now, and installed it in my PM 7300. It was a PC drive, but I was told it could be properly installed in a Mac. Indeed, it did seem to work fine. I used it for a matter of months and started to get error messages about the Jaz disk becoming corrupted and losing data, and causing the Mac to freeze (only when drive would try to access, one sure way to make it freeze would be to have more than one transfer going on, or to have MP3 playing and then try to transfer data). Iomega sent me some replacement disks, which also went through the same thing. When I gave my 7300 to my sister I just packed away the bad drive and gave her a zip instead.

Anyhow, I discovered the drive recently, and would love to install it in my PM 8550. I tested out the drive again using my G4 and found the same problems, and one of the disks was rendered unusable when I tried to do a long erase w/Iomega tools. Looking on the web it seems that people have had many problems with these drives, and I certainly knew nothing about the "click of death" syndrome a few years ago. My question is this, could my corruption and disk failure problems have anything to do with lack of SCSI termination? Something having to do with the fact that it was intended to be a PC drive? Or something like the "Click of death"?

I don't know much about SCSI or termination and such. I do know the 7300 had an internal fast SCSI bus.

Thanks,
tropine

[OldManMac]

Your corruption (well, the disk's actually) and disk failure problems have to do with the fact that it's an Iomega Jaz, and these are junk. I went through the same things two years ago. These are widely known to be junk. Deposit it in the nearest trash receptacle and forget you ever owned one.

[ 12-05-2001: Message edited by: KarlG ]