Dana Sibera wrote:

>On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 01:56  AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>>  I have a 180 running 7.5.1 and would like to use my ZIP drive with
>>>  it, but
>>>  the
>>>  SCUSI probe won't put the Zip drive on the desktop.  WHat am I dong
>>>  wrong?
>>  --------------
>>  I believe you will need an Iomega extension to make the drive mount.
>
>If you have a disk in the drive when trying to mount, it -should- mount
>okay then. Sometimes it's a bit flakey.
>
>If that doesn't work, booting the mac with a formatted disk in the
>zipdrive has always worked for me (across about 4 macs)

Recently had an odd problem where an inserted Zip disk wouldn't mount 
in a 1400 when awakened from sleep (I think it was; disk was inserted 
before sleep and mounted, but not there when awakened). I understand 
the 1400 scans its expansion bay upon awakening from sleep, which is 
why it has to be put to sleep to swap modules; apparently it doesn't 
use a third-party driver like the Iomega extension (which loaded 
during startup) when it does the scan. I found the Iomega Guest app 
(which comes as part of the Iomega software package) would mount the 
disk. I put an alias of Iomega Guest in the Apple menu, and alerted 
the client to the problem & solution.

Anyway, for stubborn Zip disks I've found that Iomega Guest often 
solves the problem; it force-loads a driver and scans for a 
drive/disk. (Of course it's also helpful for its intended use: to 
mount a Zip disk on a Mac that doesn't have Iomega software 
installed: just bring a floppy with Iomega Guest, connect a Zip 
drive, startup the Mac, insert the floppy and run Guest.) Of course, 
if you're using a Zip drive with your Mac, you should have the Iomega 
extension in the Extensions folder, as the OS itself doesn't have a 
driver to see a Zip disk.

I also use older Iomega installers/software with older OSes; newer 
Iomega versions have a lot of extra, useless stuff.

Andrew Main

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