by Rascal Revenge » Fri Jul 23, 2010 10:22 pm
Quite sure when you have your Jaz-Disk you can enable Undo/Redo, but better install a regular HD (IDE or SSCI) in your Ultra.
E-mu does recommend NOT TO USE Undo/Redo with Jaz and such, see it in the manual under Undo/Redo Enable (Page 99 - at least in my revision of EOS paper-manual), I think it had to do with drive speed and the fact that it (Jaz) puts itself to sleep after minutes of non-use, even if you have sleep-mode in Ultra menu deactivated, which could eventually lead to a "hang" when performing UNDO tasks on a "sleeping" JAZ. Guess this could only be solved if you have a dedicated IOMEGA tool for computer (probably MAC-only ?) to tell 'em not putting itself to sleep, dunno exactly.
On a personal note: I would not give a dime for IOMEGA, so better buy some MOD-drive for secure data-backup. One JAZ died on me back then (their not as crappy as ZIP at least), still have the replacement-drive in the closet (it was an external "Lacie" or "ONE" brand, with a fan inside.) Well, as long it's just the drive that dies and your media(disk) survives you're lucky, otherwise you're f......
Just mentioning.