OleLila
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I had a great experince with a SCSI Sony magneto optical drive and decided to keep checking out older scsi removable media devices. Found a Jaz drive and it is, thus far, infinitely better than the zip. I found a couple of bernoulli 150 MB external SCSI drives and they both turn on, the scsi software correctly identifies them, but does not acknowledge media as being present. One of them stated to format, but then stopped working. They both seem to be broken in the same way, they turn on, scsi probe knows they are Bernoulli and sees them, but when I put the media in, they spin then there is a fairly solid surge which fits with a magnetically driven read her, but I don't think it ever engages, its like they get stuck or hit something. You can take them apart and remove a circuitboard, but can really not get to the magnets or head/mechansm without some pretty aggressive disassembly...like maybe heating up some magnetic shielding and peeling it off. Maybe I'll ave to sacrifice one of them.