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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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