15 Aug
2007
15 Aug
'07
6:54 a.m.
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 15 Aug 2007 at 14:51, Tony Wills wrote:
Greetings all;
I've owned an EZ135 for many years now - two in fact, as the first one
magically caught fire one day by itself (cough). The EZ135 will appear on
an IDE bus without any tricks - although I've never tried it on an 80 line
cable. I have all of the DOS drivers on diskette if you'd like me to
mirror them for you, but they're definitely too old to include Win9x
support.
While I haven't used the drive under a Microsoft OS in many, many years,
the unit works flawlessly under Linux. It even correctly responds to the
'eject' command :)
JP Hindin
Does anyone have experience with connecting Model
EZ135A SyQuest drives
(that read 135MB removeable cartridges) to PCs? I think they were
originally sold as external SCSI or parallel port devices. The bare drive
that I've got has an IDE type interface, but I'm told they don't identify
themselves properly on the IDE bus so that the PC BIOS doesn't recognise
them. (I'm trying to find a way to read some old archive disks).
I believe the IDE version of the EZ135 as well as the EZFlyer are
ATAPI, so you'll need a driver. Fortunately, there are lots of
drivers around for them--just do a Google. You'll probably have the
best luck finding Win9x versions, though I believe there were DOS
drivers also. BTW, the EZFlyer will read (IIRC but not write) the
EZ135 carts.