On Dec 11, 8:29 pm, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote: > I happen to have an early internal SCSI Zip 100 drive. It has to use a 5.25" > half-height bay mine is the standard hard drive size, and it works better than the ATAPI ones (faster smoother and quieter I mean). I don't know about the destroying of disks, I have never had that problem and I have all three kinds. I did have a problem once with a jazz drive where both disk and drive were destroyed (Iomega replaced the disk and I bought two used drives).
I am not sure but I think I got it out of the old Power Tower clone I salvaged (must have been). It is in my Beige Desktop G3 now after having been in a G4 yikes (that was in a B+W rev 1 case), with an orange micro scsi card. Since I picked up another of the G3 DTs salvage dead mobo with the zip bezel and an ATA drive I swapped back into the B+W slave to the DVD drive. I think I had the SCSI zip in a case that was from some kinda cartridge drive that I found, dead but the box worked. Those old boxes with their own real powersupplies and standard cords. I found a piece to cover the opening in that box from the inside out so I used it for a regular scsi hard drive... Also have a zip module for my pismo powerbook. I should really try and get more use out of these as organizational aids (I need all the help I can get and things I can get my hands on). Also reminds me of the great dumpster diving days not so long ago, the last couple years has been pretty slim pickings around here, but the earlier part of the decade I found a lot of great stuff including a working powerbook 165c and a performa450 also working. I just sold the 8500 I found also working which I had put parts from the power tower (not working but good cpu and ram). Well I did get that salvage g3 this year but I had go across town for it I didn't just run into it on a walk like the rest of the stuff. I still think that the memory-card-reader-scsi-adapter-in-a-box is a great solution for the OP. -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
