Hi,
Since I sold you that Plus, I feel particularly compelled to offer assistance (which I will gladly do), so here goes:
Sometimes, an improperly formatted disk can cause a machine to crash like that (although I've only seen the Sad Mac in my experiences).
When that happens, you should try with no disk in the ZIP drive (and don't hold down the mouse button, if that seems to be causing problems), wait for the machine to fully boot up from a floppy, then try inserting the problem ZIP disk, open Apple HD SC Setup (or some other formatting utility) and format the drive (or, at the very least, update* the drivers).
This is how I solve the problem when it comes up (which isn't very often), and it seems to work most of the time.
By the way, feel free to contact me directly whenever you have a problem. I know that machine pretty well.
c
*I think this is caused by the disk drivers being too new for the machine, which causes it to crash. Updating, in this instance, replaces that incompatible driver with one the machine understands (and can boot from).
Since I sold you that Plus, I feel particularly compelled to offer assistance (which I will gladly do), so here goes:
Sometimes, an improperly formatted disk can cause a machine to crash like that (although I've only seen the Sad Mac in my experiences).
When that happens, you should try with no disk in the ZIP drive (and don't hold down the mouse button, if that seems to be causing problems), wait for the machine to fully boot up from a floppy, then try inserting the problem ZIP disk, open Apple HD SC Setup (or some other formatting utility) and format the drive (or, at the very least, update* the drivers).
This is how I solve the problem when it comes up (which isn't very often), and it seems to work most of the time.
By the way, feel free to contact me directly whenever you have a problem. I know that machine pretty well.
c
*I think this is caused by the disk drivers being too new for the machine, which causes it to crash. Updating, in this instance, replaces that incompatible driver with one the machine understands (and can boot from).