I've read that an IDE to USB adapter should work. I've tried one of these via an IDE to SATA adapter before and it did not work. IDE ATAPI Internal - Does not try to look like a hard drive. I'd guess an IDE to SATA adapter might let this work via SATA. From DOS, BIOS could access it without any drivers but it would have to be formatted with a partition table to use it without drivers. Without additional drivers, Windows would recognize it as a removable drive, and then fail to unmount the file system when ejected. This one was weird as the disk looked like an IDE hard disk drive. SCSI External - Probably used more on Macs. I don't know if it actually lays out any kind of low-level format or just wipes, but over the years I encountered multiple times where doing this would appear to fix some sector read errors. Not sure about the other interfaces, but on SCSI you can use a cards low-level format option to wipe and re certify a disk. Typically only SCSI drivers, so any OS that supports your SCSI card should be able to access the drive. SCSI Internal - can be used as a generic removable drive without any drivers, like Bernoulli, or hard drive if SCSI card bios supports it. IDE/ATAPI should have been fast, but I seem to recall those being a tad more sluggish than SCSI. SCSI, however was blazing fast and efficient. Zip drives were criticized as slow or not "multimedia ready", but usually this was because people used the parallel port version a lot. The early drives were really fun, as eject mechanism was too aggressive and would spit the disk completely out of the drive and on to the desk or floor. Of course these used electrical eject mechanisms, so it might choose not to let you eject the disk, but you would never know and just press the button harder. Just like a 3.5" floppy disk, once that comes undone, it is game over. Don't even TOUCH a zip drive while it is reading a disk.ĭisassembling a bad zip disk, I noticed that the adhesive that holds the magnetic "cookie" to the metal disk at the center seems to be degrading. Early internal units have a nice big silver sticker covering various openings, presumably to keep dust out. The drive heads are tiny and very easily ripped to shreds by dust, dirt, or damaged disks. I remember back when these were new, accidentally dropping a drive just a few feet on to a concrete floor - it looked fine but would no longer read disks. These disks and drives were fragile when they were new. Much like a 3.5" floppy disk, they used a spinning magnetic disk enclosed in a plastic cartridge, with a small metal shutter that gave the drive access to to the disk surface. It was basically a successor to Iomega's much larger Bernoulli drive, it competed against the SuperDisk LS-120, and it could store much more than a regular floppy drive. The original Iomega Zip 100 drive was a fairly popular storage device. After some frustrating fiddling with a few Zip drives, just got me thinking about a few things.
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