14 Aug
2007
14 Aug
'07
9:44 p.m.
On 15 Aug 2007 at 14:51, Tony Wills wrote:
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.
Cheers,
Chuck