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Post #15 by 68K-Trooper
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateMon, 23 Feb 2009 - 00:06
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/adding-a-zip-drive-to-a-mac-classic.15947/
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I forgot to mention in my last post that I had already tried to use the blue autodetect cable at first. The Classic will boot fine if hooked up this way but the drive will not show up. I don't have the zip drive with me right now to check, but I don't think there was a termination switch anywhere. Only the ID 5/ID6 switch.

Again, the driver file I downloaded has the extension .sit.hex. When I copied it onto a floppy on my pc using "MacDisk", the application asks me if I want to convert the Hex file or something in that manner. When I choose to convert, the file would change to a .sit extension. Then I transferred the driver via floppy to my classic and copied the driver.sit file to my extensions folder on the HD. Then I started up the stuffit app and tried to expand it, but the driver.sit file won't show up in the extensions folder in order to select it through stuffit. Not so when I select "do not convert the hex file" when copying the driver file to a floppy disk on the pc. This way it DOES show up in the extensions folder when trying to expand via stuffit. But after the "decoding" process the driver shows up in the extensions folder with a .sit file. Is that the way it is supposed to be? I thought after successfully unstuffing the driver the .sit extension would change to something else? So, I'm not sure if I"m experiencing a driver problem or if it's related to SCSI termination.

Thanks for any help.

mp.ls