On 2019-12-25, Roger Bell_West  wrote:
> On 2019-12-25, Jos Boersema wrote:
>>an Iomega zip drive with USB 3
>
> Really?

Ah I merely used the word 'zip drive' in a random sense for a portable
external drive, didn't remember it had any particular meaning, my bad.

It seems to be this thing:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Iomega-eGO-Portable-500GB-USB-3-0.33106.0.
html
I figured because the USB plug is blue on the inside, it is USB 3.
This external drive I have is not new, it might be from around the
time that article is written (2010).

I tried to plug it in just now, while the Pi 4B was running with power
from the wall socket, and it crashed the operating system. The X-server
crashed, it returned to the text console, and then seemed to lock up
with some kind of file system errors being printed. It accepted no input
from the keyboard anymore.

Searching for 'zip drive' I now recall these things again, and used to
own two or three.

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