TylerEss, Tom, you're both right. I think I was hasty. The fact is, I installed the Iomega Tools 5.0.3 that came with Mac OS 8.1 and the Iomega driver (correctly put in the Extension folder, top of the list) was not seeing the Zip disks. Every program in the Iomega Tools folder told me that no Iomega drive could be found.
That worried me, and when I found some mention of the VST Zip driver, I thought it'd be necessary to detect Zip disks. Turns out that a manual install of a more recent version of the Iomega driver (6.0.7 if I remember correctly) was enough to do the trick. After a restart, Zip disks were correctly detected, mounted and managed.
I'm glad because I have a few disks and another Zip 100 USB drive I can use to exchange files between vintage and more modern Macs. But I did spend an hour with cold sweats... It's not cool buying something that turns out to be unusable. Fortunately this was not the case.
Thank you for your feedback!
Rick
That worried me, and when I found some mention of the VST Zip driver, I thought it'd be necessary to detect Zip disks. Turns out that a manual install of a more recent version of the Iomega driver (6.0.7 if I remember correctly) was enough to do the trick. After a restart, Zip disks were correctly detected, mounted and managed.
I'm glad because I have a few disks and another Zip 100 USB drive I can use to exchange files between vintage and more modern Macs. But I did spend an hour with cold sweats... It's not cool buying something that turns out to be unusable. Fortunately this was not the case.
Thank you for your feedback!
Rick