VMSZealot
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I have a few Zip drives. A couple of USB drives (still working), an IDE drive in my beige G3 (still working), and a SCSI Zip drive - the most used because it connects to my 68k Macs, which failed with the dreaded click of death last year. Honestly, I'm surprised it didn't fail sooner - because, back in the nineties, my mum used to use it as a hard disk, startup drive, and everything. It hasn't been treated kindly.
Everything I've read on the webs says that it's a mechanical issue caused by a bent part, and that it's not repairable. That seems bizarre - surely a bent component, even on a hugely cheaply built device, doesn't result in permanent failure? Not in the 21 century world of 3d printing?
So… has anyone got any experience of fixing a Zip drive? It'd be nice to be able to give my 68k Macs their mass storage again!
Everything I've read on the webs says that it's a mechanical issue caused by a bent part, and that it's not repairable. That seems bizarre - surely a bent component, even on a hugely cheaply built device, doesn't result in permanent failure? Not in the 21 century world of 3d printing?
So… has anyone got any experience of fixing a Zip drive? It'd be nice to be able to give my 68k Macs their mass storage again!
