Demagnitization of zip100 media

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Is it possible to render a degaussed Zip100 disk usable again? There is
no need to recover the data, just the media.

If it is possible, what utility would do it?
 
Is it possible to render a degaussed Zip100 disk usable again? There is
no need to recover the data, just the media.

If it is possible, what utility would do it?
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The DOS utilities package that accompanied the Zip drive (probably
installed in \IOMEGA) included SCSIUTIL.EXE that could (re)format
a disk. Try that ... but be warned that it takes a really long time.
 
Roby said:
The DOS utilities package that accompanied the Zip drive (probably
installed in \IOMEGA) included SCSIUTIL.EXE that could (re)format
a disk. Try that ... but be warned that it takes a really long time.
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Thanks, I'll give it a try.
 
Well. 6 hours per disk multiplied by about a hundred disks = recycle
them and be done with it.
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That's a long time! I've never tried it.

I recall a discussion about using those disks with a Linux filesystem -
either ext2 or ext3 as I recall. I suppose the formatting was done
under Linux. For sure, not by SCSIUTIL.EXE.

Maybe it's possible to just use the DOS FORMAT program. At worst, you'll
ruin a disk that was bound for the wastebasket anyway.
 
Roby said:
That's a long time! I've never tried it.

I recall a discussion about using those disks with a Linux filesystem -
either ext2 or ext3 as I recall. I suppose the formatting was done
under Linux. For sure, not by SCSIUTIL.EXE.

Maybe it's possible to just use the DOS FORMAT program. At worst, you'll
ruin a disk that was bound for the wastebasket anyway.
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I tried the DOS format thing first, same speed. Except when you get to
the very end it says it can't find the partition table.

Anyway, They weren't my disks. And as I work at a computer recycler,
they were stripped for the stainless steel, and we do get paid by the
pound on the rest. So not TOO much waste.
 
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