zip 100 plus drive

[mmmlinux]

I picked up a zip 100 plus drive that in theory can do either scsi or parallel. I'm not getting any luck using it with my mac, but found some one mentioned that you need their special cable that came with it. Can anyone verify this?

 

[MrFahrenheit]

I hope you verified that the drive itself really is a Zip Plus. Because I have been noticing for years people on eBay listing Zip drives incorrectly, and at one point I was trying to correct all of the incorrect ones listed.

I stopped when it became a futile effort.

I do have some Zip SCSI and also Plys drives but I have never tried the Plus ones out.

Do you have SCSI Probe installed to verify whether the Mac sees it?

 

[bibilit]

The Plus is using a special cable, i agree with that.

 

[jmacz]

I've seen some frankenstein drives out there ... much of the parts are interchangeable in the 100 series so I've seen real pluses living inside a normal 100 case and vice versa, so probably pointing out the obvious but make sure the rear panel has a scsi ID selector otherwise it doesn't support scsi.

That said, I use a plus with my macs. I'm using a DB25 scsi cable (Male to Female) and using the female end on the auto detect port of the zip plus. Works great. Note that it will work without the driver, but without the driver, disks will not auto mount or auto eject. You will need to use scsi probe or similar tool to mount the disks after inserting them.

 

[chelseayr]

the scsi/parallel hybrid drive does indeed have its own "autodetect" labelled blue iomega cable to specifically go with it

and also I thought I'll quote this tidbit from @avadondragon below;
The hybrid drive is known as the ZipPLUS and it has indeed been reported to be unstable. It is supposed to do auto-termination unlike the pure SCSI version that has a termination switch. That feature seems to be a bit flakey. I have been using one in the middle of a SCSI chain with a PiSCSI on my Mac plus without issue though.
(sourced from https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?thr...-request-for-clarification.43427/#post-473508 )

 

[mmmlinux]

I have also noticed that somehow people have no idea how to read and then accurately type the model number. Yes it is actually a plus.

yeah i have scsi probe installed, doesn't see it at all. I think i may be having a power supply problem now though.

so thats 2 votes for special cable and one for not special cable.