Re: Zip Plus driver

2010-09-18 Thread Matt Rhinesmith
If I can get a link to a site, I'll send you a floppy. Also, I do have a ZIP 100 drive, but I don't think it's a ZIP Plus. I could send a copy of its driver disk (which I never had to use) if you want. Email me offlist if interested. Matt Rhinesmith Sent from my iBook G3 Indigo iBook G3 C

Re: Zip Plus driver

2010-09-16 Thread Dark_Mac
On Sep 15, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Troy wrote: I am in need of the Iomega installer on 800KB disks for the Zip 100 Plus drive. Can anyone be of help? Please don't send me to download sites--i have an Intel iMac and no external floppy disk and the Mac SE the Zip drive is for is not networked in any

Re: Zip Plus driver

2010-09-16 Thread D. Finnigan
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:45:28 -0700 (PDT), "d235j.1" wrote: > > A Zip disk formatted > in OS X may not have a driver on the Zip disk, which means that > booting with such a disk in the drive won't work. > Use the Disk Utility to check the "OS 9 Drivers" check box when doing a format on a suitabl

Re: Zip Plus driver

2010-09-16 Thread d235j.1
There are a few things to take note of: • The Zip 5.x driver doesn't work right on old Macs. And the 5.x driver will overwrite the 4.2 driver on the disk. A Zip disk formatted in OS X may not have a driver on the Zip disk, which means that booting with such a disk in the drive won't work. • The Z

Re: Zip Plus driver

2010-09-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
now is good and boot the Mac. If the Zip mounts on the desktop, hooray, it works. --- On Wed, 9/15/10, D. Finnigan wrote: > From: D. Finnigan > Subject: Re: Zip Plus driver > To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com > Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 12:27 PM > Legends tells that if

Re: Zip Plus driver

2010-09-15 Thread John Carmonne
On Sep 15, 2010, at 1:33 PM, dale-gmail wrote: yep. as long as the OS - System is/are similar. 68K or PPC 6.08 or 7.5.5 or 8.1, etc.. acutally loads a driver from the disk and uses that driver to access the disk. All Zips have a driver on them AFAIK. The only Iomega drive I need a driver

Re: Zip Plus driver

2010-09-15 Thread dale-gmail
yep. as long as the OS - System is/are similar. 68K or PPC 6.08 or 7.5.5 or 8.1, etc.. acutally loads a driver from the disk and uses that driver to access the disk. dale - Original Message - From: "D. Finnigan" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 1:27 PM Subject: Re

Re: Zip Plus driver

2010-09-15 Thread D. Finnigan
Legends tells that if you format a Zip disk using a Mac, then start up another Mac with that Zip disk, there is a driver on the Zip disk which will load into RAM and allow that second Mac to use the Zip disk. When I say, "start up the Mac," I don't necessarily mean to start from a System Folder on

Zip Plus driver

2010-09-15 Thread Troy
I am in need of the Iomega installer on 800KB disks for the Zip 100 Plus drive. Can anyone be of help? Please don't send me to download sites--i have an Intel iMac and no external floppy disk and the Mac SE the Zip drive is for is not networked in any way. I have the Zip 100 Plus drive, I have th