Macintosh SE SuperDrive and SCSI Zip 100 Drive

[pee-air]

I don't know. I've never owned or used a Zip Drive. I don't know anything about them. I have an EZ135 drive that I used to use. I used Silverlining Lite to mount those disks. Why don't you try that?

Give me a few minutes, and I'll upload Silverlining Lite to my website for you.

 

[wally]

When you mount the zip media you are using on the 4400, do they mount as PC formatted zips with the pc designation and built in translation or as Mac formatted zips?

 

[MacTCP]

The Zip Disks are HFS.

I'll be trying Hard Disk Toolkit, Anibus, and Silverlining tonight.

 

[pee-air]

Silverlining Lite will probably do it. It's a control panel that you stick in your control panels folder. Just download it from here, unstuff it, drop it in your control panels folder, and reboot your Quadra. Then just open the Silverlining Lite control panel, click on the little arrow to the left of the zip drive item, click on the zip disk, and then click the mount button. It should be pretty easy.

If that doesn't work, try FWB Mounter. If FWB Mounter won't mount a disk on your Quadra, nothing will.

 

[MacTCP]

Hard Disk Toolkit mounted the Zip Drive!!!!! :O ;D

 

[MacTCP]

AND NOW I HAVE THE CLICK OF DEATH!! :O >

 

[Patrickool93]

Yeah, that happens... Sorry

 

[MacTCP]

I'll probably end up getting another…

Unless I get one of those SyQuest thingers. Has anybody used them? Are they better? :?:

EDIT: Oh, and SuperDisks! How are those?

 

[Mike Richardson]

AND NOW I HAVE THE CLICK OF DEATH!! :O >

I had a good SCSI Zip Drive I got from my sister for a couple of years and then it went click of death on me. Unfortunately it's just wasted. I think I threw it out

I have a few other ones though that are holding up, although I have a couple of particular disks that don't work. The internal ones also seem to be good.

SuperDisks: I have a box of these. My friend also has one. It does not work well anymore, I think that the disks get old or something and fail easily. I got brand new boxes of Super Disk 120 MBs from a closing CompUSA for like 37¢ each and they are all slow as shit, it takes 5 minutes to mount, 10 minutes to copy like 500K, etc., I think it's because it's failed over time.

 

[tomlee59]

My experience with at least the later Syquests hasn't been good. They're basically hard disks, and it seems too much to ask them to be removable, too. Their 40MB and 80MB disks seemed to do ok, but the higher-capacity ones apparently had too little margin to survive the rigors of daily use.

Your COD problem could be due to a bad drive (as is commonly assumed), or it could also be due to a bad disk. If you have another disk that you don't mind risking in that drive, you may want to give it a try. The clicking is the result of the drive repeatedly trying, and failing, to find track 0. That symptom by itself is insufficient to assign blame.

 

[Quadraman]

My experience with at least the later Syquests hasn't been good. They're basically hard disks, and it seems too much to ask them to be removable, too. Their 40MB and 80MB disks seemed to do ok, but the higher-capacity ones apparently had too little margin to survive the rigors of daily use.
Your COD problem could be due to a bad drive (as is commonly assumed), or it could also be due to a bad disk. If you have another disk that you don't mind risking in that drive, you may want to give it a try. The clicking is the result of the drive repeatedly trying, and failing, to find track 0. That symptom by itself is insufficient to assign blame.

I used to run a Syquest EZ Drive as my hard drive on a homebuilt 486DX2-80 and never had a problem with it. I used to have swappable cartridges with Windows 3.11 and OS/2.

 

[MacTCP]

I've tried multiple known-working disks on the Zip.

The SuperDisks sound pitiful. I think I'll be looking for a SCSI SyQuest or maybe an external SCSI HD. I haven't seen either, looking around.

 

[MacTCP]

Soon I'll have an 88mb SyQuest Drive & 7 disks. [|)] ]'>