iomega 100mb zip drive connecting

[doolyoz]

I have a iomega 100mb zip drive that works well on our old pentium-s computer.
using a SCSI drive

Our later Pentium 3 computer has no slot/s to connect a SCSI.
Has anyone any ideas that would allow us to use the zip drive on this machine, without changing the motherboard... or something equally disasterous.
Thanks in advance doolyoz

 

[nightowl17]

I have mine connected to the same IDE cable that my CD-RW is on , set the CD-ROM-RW as master and the Zip as slave
nightowl17

 

[edfair]

install a SCSI controller. Install the iomega software. Should put you back in business.

This is assuming that your problem is that you have a SCSI zip and no SCSI controller. Ed Fair
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[Snickle]

SCSI devices need an add-in card, as mentioned. It could have been either an ISA card or a PCI card in the old computer but I'd go with a PCI card for the new one, mainly because you may not have an ISA slot and/or that WinXP doesn't work well with ISA [had to replace a perfectly good modem]. I have a usable ISA SCSI Zip 100 left from a trade-in that doesn't respond to the eject button but will eject from within Windows Explorer.

 

[edfair]

You must be running a later windows, Berton. Mine gives the BSOD with a manual eject. So I do most of my work from DOS where it doesn't care. Most of the use is across a lantastic network for backup purposes so DOS is fine for everything I'm backing up. Ed Fair
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[Snickle]

edfair, the eject button itself doesn't function, DOS or Windows. Not a big problem as that drive is in a test-bed chassis and not used often.