This thread has its roots in my MDD Zip750 thread conquest posts.

NOT A RECOMMENDATION!I thought I'd made another major Zip conquest a while back. I picked up a pair of internal SCSI ZIP 250 drives, but they haven't worked out very well yet. :-/

I picked up a pair for $100 shipped with high hopes and the drives work fine up until the it's time to dismount/eject the disk. I've only tried them with iomega guest on a few different OS versions and once on a system with a driver install so far, so there's still some hope.

Pretty cool find nonetheless, might work out as a 250MB boot drive for compacts. Less power and heat than adapted SCA drives I would think. I haven't bothered to try it out yet, but they may fit underneath the FDD in a Compact. I'm pretty sure you'd need to do a nasty power switch shutdown method due to the dismounting problems, but it might work out. If someone wants to do some serious research on them for this purpose and for the driver issues, I'll gladly loan one out.

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I'll reiterate, I'm not recommending these very cool drives . . . yet.

If we can iron out the driver issues, I'll give them a very high recommendation.

I was so excited about finding them that I let a few comrades know about it in PM even before they arrived. :approve:

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Well, I did give it a shot this morning and these things are a perfect fit placed underneath the FDD of a Mac Plus!











The discussion about Zip behavior characteristics has been covered in the conquests thread. This is a driver issue, at worst it's a hardware incompatibility with the Mac. Given another approach, as suggested by CC-333, there may be a workaround to use these as lower power, minimal heat producing 250MB boot drives in the Mac Plus.

Even better would be to use them as fully functional Zip250s in my ZipMacPLUS™ and Radius 81/110/Zip!

CC, why don't you post your suggestion in detail to kick things off.