The thread about booting a mac+ with a zip drive got my interest in booting off of a zip drive. So far, I can't get my SE to see the zip drive, and I need some help.

(1) The working status of the zip drive is unknown. It *is* a SCSI drive. The power light comes on. It accepts 100MB discs, the amber light flashes a bit. The disks eject when I hit eject.

(2) I've tried using 4 different DB25 cables between the Zip drive and the SE. 3 of them where male/female and required a gender changer. They are not null-modem, but I don't know that they aren't serial cables lacking some of the pins, etc. None worked.

(3) I've used a couple different 100MB zip disks.

(4) Systems 6.0.5 and 6.0.8 were tried.

(5) The SE's SCSI port is known to work.

(6) I put a SC20 between the ZIp drive and the SE so that I was using cables known to be meant to work for scsi connections. The SE saw the SC20 but not the Zip drive. (I don't know that I have verified that the cable between the zip drive and the SC20 works, so that's my next thing to test - ie test the SC20 by itself with each SCSI cable so I know they all work).

(7) Same as above, but used an old external CD Drive. The SE saw neither drive.

( 8) I tried various combinations of the SCSI ID and termination switch on the ZIP drive.

Anyone have any tips, or insight?

Thanks,

Nathan