My Jaz drive makes a nice doorstop these days. That's the only place I
trust it. We lost too much data when using it on our Macs and PC's. Zips
are not a problem, however.


>I second Jeff Reece's comments regarding the instability of JAZ drives and
>their disks.  We used our 3 drives on 3 separate platforms (Windows 95, SGI and
>Mac OS 8.0) and after about 9 months, the problems started happening.  Once the
>large 2GB disks begin to fill up, the directories seem to have problems
>handling all the files and subdirectories.  We've had one drive replaced by
>Iomega, but have since corrupted another disk.  CD-RW are definitely more
>stable. I'm curious if anyone else has had similar problems with the JAZ.
>Conversely, our ZIPs seem to be chugging along just fine.

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