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When the 250MB drives first came out, Iomega warned that although they were compatible with 100MB disks, they wrote them much more slowly. I recall that the speed was on the order of 1/10th that of writing a 250MB disk. We experimented with this a little at the time, and confirmed that it could take twenty minutes or more to write a full 100MB disk in a 250 drive. I don't think any locked up on us. (I notice that the new 750MB drives can read 100MB disks, but cannot write to them at all.) At 04:35 PM 3/13/2003, you wrote: >Has anyone out there noticed a problem when using an internal 250mb zip >drive writing large files to a 100mb zip disk. I have one machine that >locks up for a 8-15 minutes to write large files examples include (power >point presentation 50mb file). It has never locked up while writing a large >file to a 250mb disk. > > >The machine in question is a 8200 Dimension, it has the XP operating system. >IDE devices are One CDRom, One CD-R/RW, One Hard Drive and One Iomega 250mb >zip Drive. Factory Strapping for Master/Slave/Cable select. > >Previous Corrective Action: > >I have already had the drive replaced, loaded all service packs, for XP and >office, and loaded the iomega ware software. Dell can't give me an answer. >http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document.asp?DN=1014241 > > >Any previous experiences, known solutions or causes to this problem would be >appreciated, > >Lee > > > >Lee Duynslager >Michigan State University >Center for Integrated Plant Systems >Information Tech. Professional > >(517)432-5296