Zip Drive Help Needed — #3

Post #3 by Charlieman

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Software
Post Date	Sun, 2 Dec 2007 - 21:51
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/zip-drive-help-needed.10848/

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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.

I believe that your cables are not D-25 SCSI cables. Serial cables just won't work. You need the blue cable that Iomega originally provided or a similar one from another SCSI peripheral provider (CMS definitely sold one in the Plus/IIgs days).

The main clue is in point 1 where you say that the eject button works on the Zip drive. If the drive was being recognised correctly by the Mac, the eject button would be disabled (ejection is handled in software by the Mac).