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"Roger A. Kendall" <kendall@ucla.edu> wrote:


>Please consult the Iomega board press release for the Zip.  It clearly 
>states that higher capacity is merely a matter of media refinement...not 
>of the electronic or mechanical aspects of the Zip.

>The implication is that 200 mbyte disks are possible.

>Now..since they are making huge sales of these things as is, I don't 
>expect to see 200 meg disks for a long while (9 months to a year)..or 
>earlier if they are threatened by another product.

>Note that no one at IOMEGA will absolutely DENY the possibility of higher 
>capacity disks for the Zip 100...however, it IS called the Zip 100.

Roger, I disagree.  I doubt that you could merely stick a '200 meg
disk' into a zip drive and have it act as 200 megs... that'd be like
sticking a 2.88 meg floppy disk into a 1.44 and expecting it to
work...

At the very least, it would require a software rewrite, and PROBABLY a
firmware change in the zip drive... packing more data on the disk
would require actually putting the sectors closer together, which
would require the heads to move in completely different ways...

Besides, they've got the Jaz drive coming out in a few months, and
that'll wipe out ANY other removeable storage product, rewritable
optical, and Magneto-optical excluded.