Spend 5min just cleaning the drive bay and contacts on the removable drive with some cleaning products.
Start with rubbing alcohol on the surfaces and then move upto something stronger if needed. There are some electrical safe products at auto parts stores (CRC is the brand I use) that can get even the filthiest items back into shape.
And then use a can of compressed air to blow out all the surfaces. But be careful if you use it on any internals.
Saw a used VST Zip 100 off of fleabay come in and it was in sad shape. Needed about 20min of disassembly and some TLC to bring it back alive. Now it works fine and I've dropped it off with a fellow Pismo owner locally. (he as pretty sad and was about to get angry with the Ebay seller, but, it was AS-IS)
But, contacts on ALL removeable bay devices and batteries requires some TLC after a while.
Start with rubbing alcohol on the surfaces and then move upto something stronger if needed. There are some electrical safe products at auto parts stores (CRC is the brand I use) that can get even the filthiest items back into shape.
And then use a can of compressed air to blow out all the surfaces. But be careful if you use it on any internals.
Saw a used VST Zip 100 off of fleabay come in and it was in sad shape. Needed about 20min of disassembly and some TLC to bring it back alive. Now it works fine and I've dropped it off with a fellow Pismo owner locally. (he as pretty sad and was about to get angry with the Ebay seller, but, it was AS-IS)
But, contacts on ALL removeable bay devices and batteries requires some TLC after a while.
(AFAIK it doesn't seem to properly support hot swapping, but it will work if inserted in sleep mode rather than powered on... LS 120 and floppy drives work OK hot swapped though, don't know why the ZIP won't)
