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SCSI Zip drive
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2016-12-28 05:52:50
I've got a cable harness for the AppleDisplayUnit that's braided Power,Video, ADB, 10bT and PhoneNet with Router and Bridge on a four way ADB/Video switchbox leading to the OmniView Mac/PC selector. I haven't hooked up Networking since moving almost seven years ago. SneakerNet/Zip is just soooo much easier for anything I really need to do. Then again, consider the fact that I despise networking. :🙂

Posted by: EvieSigma on 2016-12-28 12:51:54
Does anyone here know if a 2GB Jaz drive can use 1GB Jaz disks? I finally tested the one I got from a thrift store and it works, but all I can find online are 1GB disks.

Posted by: Cory5412 on 2016-12-28 20:20:31
It looks like they can.

Update/sidenote: I was reading a review of the Zip250 drive in the April 1999 issue of MacWorld. They generally liked the drive, but they did mention that using a Zip250 drive to manipulate 100MB media is slower by a measurable and perhaps noticeable amount (it was like 10 or 20%) than using a 100MB mechanism to do so.

If you have good working Zip100 drives and media, and you don't plan on migrating entirely to 250, then I only personally recommend getting and using a 250 in any primary capacity if you are utterly and direly desperate for a mechanism, and there are no 100s to be found anywhere.

Given that much less common drives can be had in spades on eBay, I'm guessing this isn't going to happen.

Posted by: Bunsen on 2016-12-29 10:45:36
move this discussion into Peripherals
Done.

Posted by: reukiodo on 2019-10-13 23:45:47
Does anyone here know if a 2GB Jaz drive can use 1GB Jaz disks? I finally tested the one I got from a thrift store and it works, but all I can find online are 1GB disks.
They very much in fact do. I have several 'recovery' disks of both 1G and 2G size with an external SCSI drive to boot a variety of Macs.

Posted by: bibilit on 2019-10-14 00:54:52
Yes, 1 Gb disks are ok for 2 Gb drives.

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