14 Aug
2007
14 Aug
'07
11:17 p.m.
At 2:51 PM +1200 8/15/07, 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).
After my problems on Sunday I'm wondering if you have an 80 connector
cable vs. 40 connector cable problem. Something to try, I've no idea
if it will help. The drive is definitely old enough that if you're
using an 80 connector cable this might be effecting things.
Zane
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