11 Dec
2004
11 Dec
'04
10:35 p.m.
actually I have a scsi ZIP drive
and it is possible to run it on straght scsi.. I do here.
basically you just need the scsi card and a standard external scsi cable to
fit.
the only propriety bit was the stupid little dongle that you had attached to
either end of the cable. i've run it fine here on standard scsi using a
normal scsi pc-card.
the other thing, watch out for the head crashing problem. as it tends to
knacker the disks.... if u start getting a clunking sound then look up on
google. there was a site which had a fix for it, but i forget what it was.
regards
charles
----- Original Message -----
From: <Saquinn624(a)aol.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: Iomega ZIP drives
They also made SCSI ZIPs - used on Macs and SGIs, etc.
The parallel models
used a proprietary SCSI over parallel protocol, at least on the early
ones, and
were slower than snails. I've never popped one open to see if it is
possible
to revert to SCSI, though (probably not). I think I heard that later
models
used an encapsulated IDE protocol. I'm not sure if it is still the case,
but I
think some of the old (2.2.x) Linux kernels had some documentation about
the
protocol.
It could be possible to hack together a similar interface for floppies,
though (encapsulate over parallel port)
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