> Hello,=20
> I have bought IOMEGA 750M Zip drive for backup purpose but little hesitan=
> t to=20
> open till I'm sure it works with NetBSD.  If it works with NetBSD, in wha=
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> format is the ZIP disks being formatted in?  Or, are ZIP disk formats as=20
> universal as those for CDs, CD9660 format?  Thank you in advance.


> Yours sincerely,
> S. N. Cho,
> Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2002.

Can you turn off quoted-printable with KMail/1.4.2?  See what your message 
looked like.

I have experience with Iomega Zip 100 and 250 but heard more recently about the
Zip 750.  I once formatted a Zip 100 disk with OS/2, and it worked in both OS/2
and DOS, Linux too.  One problem is Iomega's proprietary Z-tracks which are used
for spare sectors when the Zip or Jaz disk develops bad sectors.  In order to
preserve access to the Z-tracks, formatting must be done with Iomega's software.
So I suppose if that Zip 100 disk that I formatted under OS/2 developed bad
sectors, it would not have been usable any more.  But something like that
happened with a Zip 250 disk, and the bad sector was just that, and not replaced
by one of those spare sectors.  Most of the data on that disk was intact, but 
further use of that disk was likely to lead to more bad sectors and loss of
data.  I never formatted that disk; stayed with the factory format.

My source of information on the proprietary Z-tracks is newsgroups
alt.iomega.zip.jaz and alt.iomega.zip.jazz, and you can look to those newsgroups
for more information on the proprietary Z-tracks, though few if any people there
will be familiar with NetBSD.

My Zip 100 and 250 drives, both external SCSI, developed hardware problems,
though it was not the infamous click of death.