Behavior of my Zip Plus drive, SCSI cable not connected to anything:
1. Connect the power plug to an empty zip drive.
Both green and yellow lights should come on, and the yellow one should go out after one second. Alternate depressions of the power/eject button should extinguish, then light the left green indicator. Press the power button to extinguish the green light. There should be no other audible sounds up to this point.
2. With the green light out, insert a zip cartridge fully.
Both green and yellow should light. The yellow should immediately blink quickly for one second then go out, then come back on after the disk is spun up to speed and accessing begins, then go out again and stay out. The green should stay on throughout. The spindle motor should continue to run. But some accessing noises should cease after several seconds.
3. Press the button once.
Motor noises should cease. The yellow light should come on blinking, then the zip cartridge should be enthusiastically spit out.
4. Press the button once more. The green light should extinguish.
5. Disconnect power. Insert a zip cartridge. Insert a paper clip in the manual eject hole at the right (viewed from the back) rear corner of the back plate: the cartridge should manually eject.
6. Insert a zip cartridge. Reconnect power. The cartridge should remain in the drive, spin up and be accessed. Press the button, the cartridge should be ejected.
(I prefer not to power down with a cartridge inserted to avoid any possibility of a write glitch.)
I do not have a regular SCSI Zip handy at the moment but your drive hopefully will behave something similar to the my plus model...
1. Connect the power plug to an empty zip drive.
Both green and yellow lights should come on, and the yellow one should go out after one second. Alternate depressions of the power/eject button should extinguish, then light the left green indicator. Press the power button to extinguish the green light. There should be no other audible sounds up to this point.
2. With the green light out, insert a zip cartridge fully.
Both green and yellow should light. The yellow should immediately blink quickly for one second then go out, then come back on after the disk is spun up to speed and accessing begins, then go out again and stay out. The green should stay on throughout. The spindle motor should continue to run. But some accessing noises should cease after several seconds.
3. Press the button once.
Motor noises should cease. The yellow light should come on blinking, then the zip cartridge should be enthusiastically spit out.
4. Press the button once more. The green light should extinguish.
5. Disconnect power. Insert a zip cartridge. Insert a paper clip in the manual eject hole at the right (viewed from the back) rear corner of the back plate: the cartridge should manually eject.
6. Insert a zip cartridge. Reconnect power. The cartridge should remain in the drive, spin up and be accessed. Press the button, the cartridge should be ejected.
(I prefer not to power down with a cartridge inserted to avoid any possibility of a write glitch.)
I do not have a regular SCSI Zip handy at the moment but your drive hopefully will behave something similar to the my plus model...