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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>click of death</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="clean.html" title="clean"/><link rel="next" href="CLM.html" title="CLM"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">click of death</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="clean.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="CLM.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="click-of-death"/><dt xmlns="" id="click-of-death"><b>click of death</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>A syndrome of certain Iomega ZIP drives, named for the clicking noise
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that is caused by the malady. An affected drive will, after accepting a
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disk, will start making a clicking noise and refuse to eject the disk. A
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common solution for retrieving the disk is to insert the bent end of a
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paper clip into a small hole adjacent to the slot. “<span class="quote">Clicked</span>”
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disks are generally unusable after being retrieved from the drive.</p><p>The clicking noise is caused by the drive's read/write head bumping
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against its movement stops when it fails to find track 0 on the disk,
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causing the head to become misaligned. This can happen when the drive has
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been subjected to a physical shock, or when the disk is exposed to an
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electromagnetic field, such as that of the CRT. Another common cause
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is when a package of disks is armed with an anti-theft strip
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at a store. When the clerk scans the product to disarm the strip, it can
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demagnetize the disks, wiping out track 0.</p><p>There is evidence that the click of death is a communicable disease;
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a “<span class="quote">clicked</span>” disk can cause the read/write head of a "clean"
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drive to become misaligned. Iomega at first denied the existence of the
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click of death, but eventually offered to replace free of charge any drives
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affected by the condition.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="clean.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="CLM.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">clean<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>CLM</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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