I want to copy the data out of my old Iomega Zip disks while I still have the hardware to read them (and the disks themselves are still readable). To this end I dug out some old Zip drives and found one external SCSI/parallel (it would do both) and two internal IDE ones. I also dug out an old PCI SCSI card and suitable cable, but couldn't get the SCSI drive to work. But fortunately the IDE drives seemed to do fine for a few transfers.
The bad news is that they cause the system to hang: mouse stops moving, no response to keyboard and the only resort is power-cycling. This tends to happen:
- when initiating a transfer from the second zip drive to the hard disk while the first drive is already transferring; or
- when clicking the eject button in Nautilus after having completed a transfer, in an attempt to be well-behaved about unmounting the disk
I can avoid doing 1, though it kind of defeats the benefit of having two drives; but I have a harder time not doing 2.
Can anyone guess a reason why the zip drives would hang the system, and more importantly a way to avoid this?
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