2 Dec
2012
2 Dec
'12
8:08 p.m.
On Dec 2, 2012, at 22:53, ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
Can you give the details, of the Zip setup. I remember
they
came out with several Zip Disk interfaces, PC printer port,
Mac and some sort of internal card.
Sure, it's actually pretty simple (getting there may not
be, though). I have a CMD CQD-220 QBUS SCSI card
that acts as an MSCP host. I have an external SCSI Zip
drive attached and mapped as DU0: in the CQD-220
firmware (the card emulates a separate DUn: for each
SCSI ID or partition thereof).
On the Linux side, it's just an internal ATA Zip 100 drive,
nothing special there.
The real pain is probably finding a SCSI card these days.
I got super-lucky a few years ago and landed this one
on eBay for a good price (from another list member, as it
turned out, though I wasn't on the list then). If you're
looking on eBay, expect to pay upwards of $200
if you can find one. SCSI Zip 100s are somewhat easier
to find and will probably run anywhere between $50 and
$100 (or, of course, less if you're lucky).
Zip 100s came in parallel (external), SCSI (internal and
external), ATA (internal), and later USB. I have one of
the big boxy early USB models floating around somewhere,
but I don't hear great things about their reliability; the ones
with lots of verifiable problems are the later "slim" models
which (IIRC) came about with the 250 MB disks.
- Dave