[Coco] coco the click of death

[tfadden]

Roy,

Not sure about zip drives, but when a hard drive acts like that, many 
times it is caused by "stiction" and holding it in one hand while giving 
it a good slap with the other it will free up.  Just a thought....

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Tim Fadden
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------ Original Message ------
From: "Roy Justus via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
To: "coco at maltedmedia.com" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Cc: "Roy Justus" <rjrtty at aol.com>
Sent: 6/18/2021 5:48:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] coco the click of death

>well I liked the zip drives because they were removable  and about the right
>size to compliment the coco.  I am currently "stressing" another drive to seeif it will hold up.  If the problems persist I have two hard drives I can use.And I will attempt to fix any bad drives and maybe document the operationthat is if it doesn't make me look too stupid  :)
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Carlos Camacho <idevgames at gmail.com>
>To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>Sent: Fri, Jun 18, 2021 6:33 am
>Subject: Re: [Coco] coco the click of death
>
>Wow, that brings back memories of my power Mac 6100. Hard drives were still
>expensive and everyone was impressing their drives... Zip and SyQuest came
>along and it seemed like a dream come true. I was a heavy zip drive user.
>Of course CoD was my bane. Lost so much data to it.
>
>Why use a zip drive on a CoCo? Nostalgia? Why not a ide drive or scsi drive?
>
>Carlos
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