on 08.03.2004 10:25, John Albert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all - > > Has anyone ever tried installing a ZIP 100 drive into one of the two "narrow" > bays that lie immediately below the 2 "full-width" (CD) bays in an s900? >
Hi John, As others have stated, it can work quite well. Just a few additional notes: 1) Be sure the face plate is for a 3.5" bay, not 5.25". 2) The jack for the power supply on the Zip drive is the same as the jack on a floppy drive; the adapter to a full size power supply plug is a reasonably standard item in most computer stores. 3) The drive may be bootable--which makes for a very useful alternative in time of need. I have found no way to identify whether this is possible in advance except to try it. Be aware that those drives that are not bootable are very fussy about having disks inserted at startup and will freeze the machine. The canonical "mouse down at startup chime" to eject all removable disks at startup doesn't always work. Instead it is more effective to press and hold the eject button on the front of the drive immediately after beginning a cold boot; this will allow power to the eject relay before the boot process interferes. You really don't want to need to use the mechanical eject since it is accessed from the rear of the drive, not from the face as in most floppy or optical drives :( Also, Zip disks set up as boot disks on an IDE class bus will not start up on a SCSI bus, and vice versa, although they will mount with no problem. HTH, paul -- Paul F. Henegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
