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Early Zip 100 drives use an AIC 7110 SCSI controller and later parallel drives (Zip Plus and Zip 250) used what was known as Iomega MatchMaker. [6] [7] The drives are identified by the operating system as "IMG VP0" and "IMG VP1" respectively. Early external SCSI-based Zip drives were packaged with an included SCSI adapter known as Zip Zoom.
Internal and external 1GB Iomega Jaz drives with media. The Jaz drive [1] [2] is a removable hard disk storage system sold by the Iomega company from 1995 to 2002.. Following the success of the Iomega Zip drive, which in its original version stores data on high-capacity floppy disks with 100 MB nominal capacity, and later 250 and then 750 MB, the company developed and released the Jaz drive.
Iomega Corporation (later LenovoEMC) [3] [4] [5] was a company that produced external, portable, and networked data storage products. Established in the 1980s in Roy, Utah, United States, Iomega sold more than 410 million digital storage drives and disks, including the Zip drive floppy disk system. [6]
Ditto external drives were connected to the parallel port and offered a print-through port which allowed a printer to operate while daisy-chained to the Ditto drive. This is a feature also commonly found on an Iomega ZIP drive. Usage of the parallel port allowed for transfer speeds (in EPP mode) of a maximum 1 MB/s.
On a hard disk drive, the click of death refers to a similar failure mode; the head actuator may click or knock as the drive repetitively tries to recover from one or more errors. These sounds can be heard as the heads load or unload, or they can be the sounds of the actuator striking a stop, or both.
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Iomega made PCMCIA and Firewire adapters for the externally powered Zip 250. Either one also provided power to the drive. Firewire required a 6-pin port. The PCMCIA adapter was a connector on a cable, attached to the card. The Firewire adapter was in a housing that fit onto the rear of the drive and covered almost the whole back end.
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