Looking for the VST Zip 100 driver

[Morrick]

Help! I'm trying to locate the necessary driver to use a VST Zip 100 expansion bay module in my PowerBook 5300. Iomega drivers apparently are not enough, because Zip disks and the drive itself are not recognised.

After some research, I found out that I need the following extension:

"VST Zip100 Driver (v1.1)"

It's a very tiny file (35 KB or so). I've tried browsing the Web, but all sources (MacUpdate included) point to the VST Technologies FTP archive, which is no more. If any of you (especially those who have a PowerBook 190, PowerBook 5300 and PowerBook 3400) has that extension in your systems, can you send it to me via email (multifinder -at- gmail.com)?

Thank you so very much in advance!

Rick

 

[TylerEss]

I used one of these in the bay of my PowerBook 5300 for a while and I could *swear* that the Iomega driver found it.

I do recall that I needed to use Iomega Guest to load/unload the driver whenever I'd wake the powerbook from sleep. That, combined with the fact that I didn't actually have much use for 100MB floppies that at that time still cost a good deal of money, was sufficient to make me sell it.

 

[tomlee59]

I have the same vague recollection that Tyler has. I could be mis-remembering, of course, but I don't recall needing a special driver to use the VST Zip drive in my PB3400, and I've done a couple of clean installs over time. I never used anything other than a retail OS install disc (at least, not that I can remember).

 

[Morrick]

TylerEss, Tom, you're both right. I think I was hasty. The fact is, I installed the Iomega Tools 5.0.3 that came with Mac OS 8.1 and the Iomega driver (correctly put in the Extension folder, top of the list) was not seeing the Zip disks. Every program in the Iomega Tools folder told me that no Iomega drive could be found.

That worried me, and when I found some mention of the VST Zip driver, I thought it'd be necessary to detect Zip disks. Turns out that a manual install of a more recent version of the Iomega driver (6.0.7 if I remember correctly) was enough to do the trick. After a restart, Zip disks were correctly detected, mounted and managed.

I'm glad because I have a few disks and another Zip 100 USB drive I can use to exchange files between vintage and more modern Macs. But I did spend an hour with cold sweats... It's not cool buying something that turns out to be unusable. Fortunately this was not the case.

Thank you for your feedback!

Rick

 

[tomlee59]

Happy to hear that it all works now.

Enjoy!