SyQuest drive compatibility

From: Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com>
Date: Wed Feb 13 21:57:49 2002

>Sellam Ismail wrote:

> I had the same problem with a ZIP 100 Plus (SCSI interface rather
> than parallel) drive I bought brand new. It either came like that or was
> damaged when I first used it. I never actually used it until after having
> owned it for more than a year, so I couldn't get it repaired under
> warranty. I managed to super-glue the head back onto the armature but it
> still didn't work. So at some point I picked up a regular ZIP 100
> (parallel interface) for free or at least very cheap (can't remember) and
> hoped it worked, with the intent of swapping the inner mechanism in the
> SCSI version. Well, I managed to do this the other night and now I have a
> working SCSI ZIP 100 drive so I am happy.

Jerome Fine replies:

Bravo - I am not a hardware person unless I am desperate.

> Tonight I found an internal ZIP 100 with an IDE interface so I'll just use
> that in my conversion box instead of the external.

My SCSI Zip 100 drive has always been an internal. In fact, I installed
one as the removable media drive on a PDP-11/73 about 4 years ago
when the switch was made from an RD53 to a SCSI hard drive. While
the Zip 100 was never that popular a drive, the shift to a media with
more capacity than the former RD53 was a bit amazing. It allowed
all of the files from the RD53 to be restored from ONE Zip cartridge
rather than multiple RX50 floppies. As such, I try to keep one
Zip 100 available to interface with the PDp-11.

Now, where might I find an IDE Zip 100 internal drive?
Received on Wed Feb 13 2002 - 21:57:49 GMT