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Title: What ZIP Drive for my EIIIXP? Post by: FOWL on October 16, 2009, 03:45:55 PM I just borrowed a SCSI zip drive and it turns out its the wrong kind - 25 pin? anyway the scsi interface is much too small compared to that on my Emulator.
Please can someone send me a link to what kind of SCSI ZIP drive I need - Or perhaps I can just get the right lead for the EIIIXP and use this one? thanks. Title: Re: What ZIP Drive for my EIIIXP? Post by: FOWL on October 16, 2009, 03:53:52 PM is this what I need for my zip drive?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SCSI-CABLE-25-PIN-MALE-to-50-PIN-MALE-CENTRONICS_W0QQitemZ250515362426QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL?hash=item3a53e1127a Title: Re: What ZIP Drive for my EIIIXP? Post by: dr.c on October 17, 2009, 03:32:23 AM Thanks, Fowl !!! 8)
Title: Re: What ZIP Drive for my EIIIXP? Post by: FOWL on October 22, 2009, 02:43:54 AM hello Emulator community,
I wonder if you can help me again - I am trying to get these two zip drives working with my EIIIxp but to no avail! I bought two ZIP drives (one to interface with my USB mac and one to my scsi eIII) I can't get the ZIP 100 with scsi to mount - i have tried it with both ID 5/6 and out of both the ZIP and SCSI port on ZIp and also with termination on/off BUT! Now I read from emulator archive that ZIP 100 is not compatible : ( is this true? - i guess because Zip uses ID 5/6 but EIIIX uses id 1. IF so-should I look at getting a ZIP 250 scsi - is that what people use? I dont really have time to work out adding an internal drive at the moment - so I need a fast storage solution - NO FLOPPY - as its for a live situation. Cheers for your advice folks from Scotland. Title: Re: What ZIP Drive for my EIIIXP? Post by: esynthesist on October 22, 2009, 02:06:24 PM I have been using ZIP 100 drives on my EIIIXP/XS all the time.
All ZIP250 and ZIP100 drives I have ( about 8 ) are compatible with my EIIIX. I own both version 1 and version 2 ZIP100 drives (i.e. Z100S and Z100S2). Emulatorarchive is indeed stating that the L.27 versions or lower of ZIP100 are not compatible. I have no idea what this L.27 stands for, but I have read somewhere that the oldest series of ZIP100 drives are not compatible (the ones from production year 1996 or older). Here's some more information about my EIIIX: - it runs firmware 0.66 - it runs operating system 2.10 (but that doesn't matter because this OS is only loaded after the firmware recognizes my ZIP disk containing the OS) - there's no other internal or external SCSI drive connected to the EIIIX besides the ZIP drive - the ZIP drive is terminated, and works both with ID 5 and 6 - the termination power jumper inside the EIIIX is NOT set (pins are free). This is the default setting. I hope this helps... |