Macintosh SE SuperDrive and SCSI Zip 100 Drive

[MacTCP]

I won a Macintosh SE on eBay. It looks like it's an FDHD. It will be my first compact Macintosh! I will be installing System 6.0.8 on it. Applications I know I'll be using with it are Microsoft Works 2, MacPaint, and LightningPaint.

I also won a SCSI Zip 100 Drive. I bought it for my Quadra 700 whose hard drive is full.

I can't wait until they come. ;D

 

[pee-air]

How much do ZIP disks sell for these days? Do they even make and sell them anymore? Probably would have been cheaper to buy a bigger hard drive for your Quadra 700.

Nice SE!

 

[Temetka]

Zip disks are awesome. I have an old external SCSI Zip 100 drive. I have about 25 disks or so.

A friend of mine whose main machine (heck only machine) is his trusty Amiga 4000 trades files with me. Since he has a Zip drive, we can transfer 100MB of stuff at a time. That's much better than floppy or e-mail.

Don't knock Zip drives.

I love 'em to death and will be purchasing a 250MB USB unit soon.

 

[LCGuy]

Click-click drives...eww. Many people swear by 'em, but i hate the bastards.

But don't worry about me...i hate click-click drives mostly because mine went click after only 1.5 years of careful use and TLC.

 

[MacTCP]

I already have some disks from two dead drives.

 

[MacMan]

Nice conquest!

Zip drives are incredibly useful for transferring large amounts of data between older Macs quickly. I've got the same kind of Iomega Zip drive which I use on my Quadra 700, IIcx etc and it's really handy because my PowerMac G4 has a built-in Zip drive. This makes trnsferring files between the G4 and older machines very easy indeed.

 

[MacTCP]

I got both the SE and Zip Drive today! The SE is actually a SuperDrive. Is there any difference between an FDHD and SuperDrive? Also, the hard drive in it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas on how to revive it? I haven't tested the Zip Drive yet.

 

[iamdigitalman]

I have a parallel version of a zip drive, quite nice. Giant wall wort, however. I have about 15 zip disks for the thing too. Still have an unopened 10 pack I got on clearance for $10 (1/disk!!) down from $70.

If I ever get parallel card for my new IIe, I plan on getting the zip drive working with it. I know it's possible. One disk can hold a whole collection of disk images, and I bet I can boot from those images. Then use another one to hold some OSes and/or basic programs.

-digital

 

[madmax_2069]

i know my local walmarts has zip 100 disk's in there discount isle for like $4 a pop, i think they got lowered down to $2 a pop. originally they was $9 when this walmarts was first opened about a year ago ( and was the price i paid when i got mine). i bought 2 of them ( one for $9 and one for $4 )

you just have to be on the look out for them. i would check walmarts around the electronic isle and the discount isle for them. your walmarts might have them.

 

[MacTCP]

My Quadra 700 won't even start up with the Zip Drive plugged in. It freezes RIGHT before extensions load. The mac boots up with it connected and extensions off. (This isn't because of Iomega Drivers, I checked) I can't get the drive to make disks show up at all. I tried with its terminator on and off, and with it's SCSI ID as 5 or 6 (the two on the slider). What's making this not work?

 

[MacTCP]

The Hard Disk in the SE SuperDrive seems to be repairable, but how? When I start the mac up, it shows the happy mac and the hard drive light starts blinking just like it's starting up from the hard drive. But then the icon changes to a ? Disk, and the blinking light goes out. When I start up from my System 6 install disk, the Hard Drive is not detected. Because of the happy mac and blinking, I believe this can be fixed. Is there any sort of program that I could add to a boot disk and repair the Hard Drive?

 

[funkytoad]

I love the compacts!

 

[MacTCP]

Yes, this SE makes me feel complete.

 

[gobabushka]

try a patched version of apple hdsc setup

 

[MacTCP]

I found Norton Utilities 1 in "a special download space" and it's fixing my hard disk!

All I need to do now is get the Zip drive working. Anybody know how?

 

[MacTCP]

The HD was MFS! :O

 

[MacTCP]

Only Norton can see the MFS disk, and Norton can't erase disks! How do I erase this MFS disk? HD SC Setup doesn't see it. :?:

 

[wally]

In a peripheral drivers area there is a FWB Hard Disk Toolkit that is a pretty competent disk formatter utility you might try. I haven't used that exact archive but have a version that has served very well, and works on 6.0.8 and up. Re the zip drive, and your disk being full, I am speculating that the disk might be so full that there is insufficient room to open whatever size read/write buffers that might be needed by the zip driver when a connected zip is detected. Use version 4.2 (which works for me) or later of the Iomega Driver, which is also available in an uploads area. Power up the zip drive before the computer is powered up.

 

[MacTCP]

Can you send me your copy as an email attachment? That version doesn't have a serial number. :-x