Re: Danger of Encoded data: wasThe old Raw vs JPEG:

PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx · Sat, 09 Jul 2005 10:31:36 -0400 (EDT)

In my just posted previous post I explained how the problem was caused on 
Jaz drive and apparently by your experience the zip drives had the same 
proble.

In a message dated 7/9/05 1:20:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
At the 
  college we averaged roughly 120 stuffed zip drives a year, though in
*one 
  day* we lost 35!  A student with a damaged disk couldn't get it 
  to
read so he went from one machine to another not realising the damaged 
  disk
was tearing the heads off each drive.  I've never heard of this 
  happening
with superdisks or even floppies, but apparently zips can do this 
  :-/