Sellam Ismail wrote:
>
> I think there might have been problems with dust getting into the drive
> and crashing disks on the EZ135, so the EZ Flyer 230 is a single unit that
> can't be mounted internally, and has a front door flap to prevent dust
> from getting inside. One person I know claims he had a high rate of
> failure with the EZ135 (which doesn't have such a door) but I never had a
> disk go bad.
>
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Similar problems with our EZ135's. The Wilson Labs RK05 emulators
used the EZ135 and we lost 4 of these within 18 months of their
installation at work.
Wilson eventually replaced all of them with SCSI Zip100's. These
have been unusually reliable over the past 3 years.
-nick
Received on Tue Feb 12 2002 - 21:26:32 GMT