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PowerMac 9600 and Zip drives

Submitted by sfinro on August 27, 2005 - 8:36am. PowerPC Macs

I've just fitted an internal Zip 100 drive to my trusty PowerMac 9600 (it was supposed to have one included, but for whatever reason, the previous owner removed it). It works fine with both Mac and PC formatted disks, but if I leave a disk in the drive when the computer is booting up, it will lock up with a frozen mouse cursor before the Happy Mac appears. The SCSI termination is (as far as I can tell) correct, and everything works fine when the system is running (I'm running OS 9.2.2).

SCSI IDs on this computer are:
0: Quantum internal HD (boot)
1: Compaq internal HD
2: Internal Zip drive
3: Internal HP CD-Writer

Ideas, anybody?

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Long shot, but...

Submitted by tmtomh on August 27, 2005 - 3:51pm.

All ZIP disks have a version of the ZIP driver on them. Perhaps the driver on the ZIP disk is older than the one on your HD, or is corrupted, thereby causing your computer to crash during startup. When there's no disk in the drive during startup, then the version of the driver on the hard drive gets loaded instead.

So perhaps try reformatting your ZIP disk(s)?

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Re: PowerMac 9600 and Zip drives

Submitted by Dr. Webster on August 28, 2005 - 4:02am.
sfinro wrote:
It works fine with both Mac and PC formatted disks, but if I leave a disk in the drive when the computer is booting up, it will lock up with a frozen mouse cursor before the Happy Mac appears.

Simple. Don't leave a disk in the drive when the computer is booting up.

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I've tried reformatting - I d

Submitted by sfinro on August 28, 2005 - 9:11am.

I've tried reformatting - I discovered this problem when I reformatted the disks to Mac format and installed a minimal system on one of them. I'd like to be able to boot off one as a recovery disk.

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Re: I've tried reformatting - I d

Submitted by eeun on August 28, 2005 - 4:56pm.
sfinro wrote:
I've tried reformatting - I discovered this problem when I reformatted the disks to Mac format and installed a minimal system on one of them. I'd like to be able to boot off one as a recovery disk.
AFAIK, zip disks won't boot a Mac, as the Mac needs a driver to properly access the zip drive.

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here is someone that setup a plus to do that

Submitted by FunnymanSE30 on August 28, 2005 - 5:13pm.

http://www.jagshouse.com/zipMacPlus.html

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