P.S. Iomega now seems to have been swallowed whole by Lenovo. Will they even be selling hard drives?

I have a 1+ year-old stand-alone external 2gb Iomega USB 2.0/FW 800 drive which is essential to me (though I do back it up, the backup is also an Iomega!). Yesterday the drive "decided" it was unable to find many files in several folders. Cleaning things up involved Disk Utility, Maintenance and ...