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#1 ·
I have never used them before, I first thought it was a floppy drive. The drive I have uses IDE and molex so I can use it on newer stuff I guess. The USB adapter I have doesn't appear to work with it. I'll probably try a PCI IDE card I have with it. Is there anything special I need to do to be able to read the disks? I'm curious to see what are on them.
 
#2 ·
good lord, i havent thought about zip in like 15yrs.
maybe try to find one of the portable USB based zip readers?
getting an old internal zip reader working sounds like something that will take way more time than it is worth.
 
#3 ·
I'm guessing you just mount the zip drive like any other partition....most likely the disks are formatted Fat16.
 
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Originally Posted by cones View Post

Not worth buying a USB one. Sounds like I might just have to go back to my other plan of putting together an XP machine. I'm assuming the drivers wouldn't still be in the kernel? Also anyone know the most updated OS that has drivers for them?
Have you tried it yet? The PCI IDE card is probably your biggest concern. The zip drive will likely be seen as a floppy or a CD.
 
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Originally Posted by Cloudforever View Post

I was just going to say maybe Xp at most, I know Win2000 and 98 used them, but that was in the process of fading them out if im not mistaken.

Whats the model # of your zip drive?
I know XP should work. No clue on Linux though, it's way easier for me to use it anyways. Some Dell OEM one.
 
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Originally Posted by t00sl0w View Post

good lord, i havent thought about zip in like 15yrs.
maybe try to find one of the portable USB based zip readers?
getting an old internal zip reader working sounds like something that will take way more time than it is worth.
ahah yeah we had a zip drive in our household around 15 years ago also,
 
#14 ·
Ah, Zip drives; the origin of the term "click of death." Also had problems where a damaged disk could kill any drive it was inserted into. When 100Mb of external storage was awesome because 1.44Mb floppies were the alternative.
 
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Originally Posted by essanbee View Post

Ah, Zip drives; the origin of the term "click of death." Also had problems where a damaged disk could kill any drive it was inserted into. When 100Mb of external storage was awesome because 1.44Mb floppies were the alternative.
There was also Colorado Tape Backup drives. I got one back in the mid 90's.
 
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Originally Posted by Diffident View Post

There was also Colorado Tape Backup drives. I got one back in the mid 90's.
I can't remember if they were Colorodos, but the ones we had, had a gimmicky tray library for multiple cartridge backups. It was always jamming and failing. All SCSI adaptor interface causing interrupt# conflict issues and a pain to keep running.
 
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If you are hooking up to an IDE controller, just like always. CS is cable select, that is for 80 pin cables and allows automatic choice for master or slave. MA is master, SL is slave, mostly only necessary if you are using a 40 pin cable.

I used a IDE to SATA adapter on my last drive with MA set on my drive and it worked fine.
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