bigmessowires said:

It's not a myth - I've experienced the zip driver silent overwrite first-hand. The page you linked to offers an interesting work-around. I no longer have my zip drive, so I can't test it, but it makes sense.

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Yeah, it's a myth that if you put your System 6 or earlier Zip disk into a Mac running later OS, it will be messed up. I've done it thousands of times. 

I'm trying to sell the story that you can use your Iomega Zip (Bernoulli, Jaz?) drive or your Syquest safely in any Mac. I provided empirical and theoretical evidence that:

1. Iomega's INIT will only change cartridges which have been formatted using Iomega's tools.

2. You only need a vendor INIT if you use vendor features.

Get rid of vendor INITs and install generic tools to manage your external drives.