I have recently dug out an old box of Zip disks and my old Zip 100 drive. The drive powers up plugged in to my iMac Retina but does not appear in the sidebar as mounted. Disk Utility goes wonky with it connected showing a perpetual 'loading disks' message when I start it but I was able to recover files (a System 8.6 update to be exact ) with Data Rescue 4 from an inserted Zip disk. My question: Is there an available driver for this device that will allow me read/write to the disks under Mac OS X 10.x? As an alternative, how might I go about erasing the many Zip disks I have so I can sell off or give the the whole shebang to a suitable retro Mac user?
ZIP 250 Drive; Zip; Iomega Zip 250 Drive Zip. You can use IomegaWare software on a Windows PC or the Iomega Drive Options Control Panel on a Mac to change the drive sleep setting. Refer to IomegaWare help for additional information. You can change a PC-formatted disk to a Mac- formatted disk by using the Iomega Tools application on a.
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I'll offer a suggestion. It will cost you nothing to try it. Do this (in the order presented): 1. Power down -- all the way off (leave ZIP drive connected). Have a ZIP disk 'halfway inserted' into the drive 3a. Now -- power on, and IMMEDIATELY (or as quickly as possible) 3b. Push ZIP disk all the way in, and then.
Hold down the option key on the keyboard (keep holding it until the startup manager appears) 4. You should now see your internal drive. Click on it with the mouse pointer and hit return.
The Mac should boot. When you get to the finder, do you see the ZIP disk on the desktop? WHY I asked that you do this: Every Mac-formatted ZIP disk has a copy of the 'on-disk driver' on it.
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When you boot with the option key held down, this instructs the Mac to 'scan all connected drives' to look for bootable copies of the OS. Even though the ZIP disk doesn't have a copy of the OS on it, the Mac should scan the USB bus, and load the on-disk driver. Once loaded, the driver should remain loaded until the Mac is shut down or restarted. Does this work? It -used to work- some years back.
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Aside: Back in the days of the Classic Mac OS, there was a utility called SCSI Probe that would 'scan the bus' while running, and load drivers and drives where found. Too bad there's no USB equivalent of that now. I'll offer a suggestion. It will cost you nothing to try it.
Do this (in the order presented): 1. Power down -- all the way off (leave ZIP drive connected). Have a ZIP disk 'halfway inserted' into the drive 3a. Now -- power on, and IMMEDIATELY (or as quickly as possible) 3b. Push ZIP disk all the way in, and then.
Hold down the option key on the keyboard (keep holding it until the startup manager appears) 4. You should now see your internal drive. Click on it with the mouse pointer and hit return. The Mac should boot. When you get to the finder, do you see the ZIP disk on the desktop? Does this work? It -used to work- some years back.
