It isn't a problem with mounting the disks or them being blessed or not. I can confirm that they mount fine with a driver on a ssytem which already ahs an OS installed on it and that it sees the system folder as blessed. I just can not seem to get a system to boot from the drive on its own with no action from any possibly installed OS on the internal ahrd drive.

I'll retry the key combinations tomorrow. The zip drive can be set to either ID 5 or 6 and has automatic powered termination on it.