Mega Iomega Conquest!

#1 Sun, 5 Jun 2011 - 05:25

Just browsing through the storage area in my friend's basement tonight I uncovered SCSI heaven:

1 Zip 100 Plus (SCSI/Parallel) drive

1 Zip 250 SCSI drive

1 Jaz 1GB SCSI drive

1 Jaz 2GB scsi drive

7 or 8 Jaz disks of 2GB and 1GB denominations.

7 or 8 Zip disks of 100MB and 250MB denominations

and all necessary power supplies!!!

This is in addition to the Zip 100MB parallel drive I already have.

Asked about them, and I can have them as soon as the cartridges/disks are wiped clean!

#2 Sun, 5 Jun 2011 - 06:16

Nice, a zip drive would be very handy for my Classic II. (They're very hard to find in my area, even more so if you want cables.)

At least I recently found an old SCSI CD drive at a thrift store, it even uses the CD caddy. Fortunately there was a caddy there as well. Haven't tried it yet though, not sure which CD drivers to try. (Didn't System 7.5.x have a CD-ROM extension that worked with third-party drives?)

Anyway, congrats on your find there.

#3 Sun, 5 Jun 2011 - 07:49

(Didn't System 7.5.x have a CD-ROM extension that worked with third-party drives?)

Probably this will help:

http://www.macdrivermuseum.net/disk.shtml

Resexcellence Apple CD/DVD driver Hack Modify the Apple CD/DVD driver to work with 3rd party drives

#4 Sun, 5 Jun 2011 - 11:45

If you just want to read data CDs on it, the freeware Sunrise driver on the Mac Driver Museum link is perfect. Works fine on System 6 too (with Desktop Manager).

The "universal" and hacked Apple drivers didn't work at all here with my old 1x external SunCD.

#5 Sun, 5 Jun 2011 - 12:43

Nice! Those and a USB Zip/Jaz drive - or indeed that parallel drive you already have - will make it much easier to transfer data from the modern world onto your old machines.