I tried to boot it off the Disk tools floppy with no luck and the Data shuttle with my original hard drive wasn't recognized either. Nor did trying to switch systems with the key combination as I suppose the boot sequence doesn't get far enough to recognize it. Henceforth I will never buy anything from Iomega again for making the Zip and the Zip Plus drive virtually identical and I will spit three times in their general vicinity when I hear their name spoke aloud. (That'll teach 'em <grin>)
The problem now is what do I do with a dead 2400? How do I get to the contents of my 2.5 drive? What am I gonna do without a laptop until July when iB2 starts shipping? <Arrrggg!!!!>
The thought of spending $350 for a motherboard swap for a 2400 that has just dropped in value when I was planning to get an iB2 just doesn't make sense to me so I'm currently thinking of parting it out. I suppose I can get $150 for the LCD, $85 for the 80 meg memory. Assuming it's not fried, the Newer G3 is worth a few hundred also. Will offer to the list first of course and then off to eBay, I guess. Watch this space. . .
Has anyone parted out a 2400 that can offer advice?
>>Today I mistakenly plugged in a parallel port PC Zip disk into my SCSI
>>port and tried to boot up. Got no start-up chime, no pointer then
>>realized that I hooked up the PC Zip drive instead of the Zip Plus
>>cross platform one to my 2400. Dang!
>
>I'm afraid you've probably fried the SCSI controller chip and an
>indeterminate amount of the logic board. Or, you may have only fried
>part of the power-I/O board - but you fried something. :/ A lit
>screen with no chime is a particularly bad sign.
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