Testing and benchmarking the micro-floppy "iomega clik!"
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Published 2024-07-17
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All Comments (21)
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Get well soon Adrian.
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A fun thing about their USB pocketzip drives: they're just the PCMCIA drives inside a holder. I don't think they even have any smarts, they just connect to some built in USB support on the PCMCIA card
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ZIP might seem like a joke now, but as a graphic artist in the 90's they were DUH BOMB! Remember that's back when a blank CD-R disc costs $20.... each!
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PCMCIA/PC Card: 16-bit ISA CardBus: 32-bit PCI (also has a 16-bit ISA bridge to support old cards) ExpressCard: PCIe/USB (ExpressCard 1.0 supplies PCIe1 x1 and USB2, ExpressCard 2.0 supplies PCIe2 x1 and USB 3, although I don't think anything ever really supported ExpressCard 2.0.)
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The late 90's were an insane time for tech growth. Iomega went from a huge entity in the industry to forgoten in the span of a few years.
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I hope you feel better Adrian. We are all worried about you.
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The LPC soundcard adapter is called dISAppointment by Rasteri
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The Linux driver is called ide-floppy and Clik is still supported in recent kernels (based on work originally done out-of-tree for the 2.2 series).
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I think what killed Clik is the £100 CD-RW drive and 30 pence CD-Rs, at least for folks moving or backing up large amounts of data in the home. Memory cards for phones and cameras, then later for computers with USB sticks taking over from DVD-Rs. USB sticks had been around for years before they finally took off as flash memory prices dropped. Happened in tandem, but at a faster rate, with SSDs taking over from mechanical hard disks.
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Love the videos Adrian hope you fully recover soon
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I had an LS-120 drive around this time, like late 1998 or so. It worked pretty well and was obviously the same size as a normal floppy drive and floppy disk. But just like this thing, it was a bit too late. We had CDs already.
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Adrian, I had covid a few weeks ago. I feel your pain. I did not feel normal for a least a week afterwards. Wish you the best for a speedy return to normal.
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I like your explanation about ATA being a subset of the ISA bus, perfectly true ! To go one step further PCMCIA is an ISA bus on a different form factor. It is technically possible to connect an ISA card to an A600 or A1200 by adding a converter card. A picogus for Amiga maybe ?
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That name was so funny back then in the context of the clicking zip drives self destroying
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Nice find Adrian! I was in IT in the nineties and early 2000's I remember how every day there was something new to buy! It was an incredible time for computer technology! I remember the first Pentium processors and the release of windows 95 , the industry was so fast paced and amazingly fun. It was a very special time!
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Linux driver for that kind of device is called pata_pcmcia and for some reason it is not loaded automatically. Calling "sudo modprobe pata_pcmcia" might help.
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I'd try setting "dma if available" and checking if actually dma is enabled in XP. It could get faster but CPU wouldn't be used as much. XP does it without a reboot. Win 2k needed a reboot for it. I can remember that as if it was yesterday. Recover quickly!
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I used a Clik40 drive on my Linux Sony 505 notebook in the early 2000s. I can only remember having to spend hours compiling the kernel to get it to run.
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I remember when flash memory was so expensive that the 80 GB iPod had an HDD, while the flash memory Nanos were limited to ridiculously small sizes such as 2, and 4 GB. Insane how we have come from that to 1+ TB SSD internal sticks about the size of the iPod Nano itself...
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It's amazing how people can make complex moving parts so small when their company's existence depends on it. I wonder how many ex watchmakers were employed by Iomega in the 90s?
