> I use an Iomega ZIP 100 as a backup. I find that I frequently get > cryptic error messages of various kinds while copying stuff to it. > However, the actual files seem to get copied nevertheless; I'm not sure > if they are perfect but as they are pretty well all text files a few > minor errors wouldn't matter too much. > > Is anyone else using this same system, and do they find something > similar? > > Anthony > I use zip for backups. The model I use is the scsi one. The only time I get errors is when there are bad blocks on the disk. You can reformat them but it's a pain. The utilities that run under nt won't clear the bad blocks. I wrote a script that does a low level scsi format of the disk and then verifies it with badblocks. I doubt if it will work with anything but the scsi version of the zip drive. I'll send it to you if you want...
jim
