problem with parallel zip drive!

[outoftheblue]

I have a Iomega zip drive (100mb) parallel version... I lent it to a friend and now its fried somehow.

When you plug the thing in, both the green and amber lights remain lit, and the eject button does not respond (yes, theres also a disk stuck in there).

Any ideas? This thing is just over a year old, I don't want to trash it!!

 

[RC5Bri]

Isn't there an eject button that you need to push on the back end? Try to get the disk out first, and then see if both lights still turn on.

 

[outoftheblue]

The lights stayed on in the first place, I fed it a disk to see if it would help but it didn't. I'm not sure if theres a manual eject on the rear, i'll have to see.

Its still at my friend's house, i'll have to retrieve it and play with it some more.. then i can post more info!

 

[RC5Bri]

I've never heard of lights staying on when there isn't a disk in the drive. I have seen the drive blink the amber light when no disk was in. Had you drive been making the "Dreaded Click-O'-Death"?

 

[outoftheblue]

I read about the click-o-death, and I didn't hear any clicks! I last used it a few months back, and it was OK. I dug it out without testing it (duh, I assume it works since I hadn't touched it), and gave it to my friend... he said he didn't do anything to it in transit and I trust him, so I don't know why it failed so suddenly...

Zip drives are pretty durable things :0) My SCSI internal is chugging away, and I'd really like my parallel to work again so I can transfer between systems, esp ones that dont have a CD-ROM or ones that can't read CD-RW.

More info tmr! Thx!

 

[Oli]

I think it's dead, try to remove the disk but here we have the same thing.

 

[outoftheblue]

The drive is here back home, there is a small hole at the back for manual eject, I stuck a paper clip in and retrieved the disk.

Did NEC buy out Iomega???!!!! I just went to iomega.com and it directed me to NEC.... and NEC's site I havent had good experiences with!

Both lights are still illuminated... do I have any hope? I'm gonna try a Google search now...

 

[alrocky]

I didn't get a redirect to NEC. Try Iomega's site again. There is a tech support page that directly addresses your situation. Hopefully it'll fix your problem.

What did your friend do to your zip, anyway?

 

[outoftheblue]

Something is screwed.... go to http://www.iomega.com and it sends you to NEC. Go to http://iomega.com and you get Iomega.

Odd... guess the webmaster screwed something up I'll check the real Iomega site now.

I don't know what he did to the zip, but in the past few months a 52" projection TV, IDE CD-ROM, 3gb HD, and this zip have died in his house... and the computer devices are all hooked up to a APC surge protector as well as a APC UPS... weird! Anti-technology ghosts in his house I guess