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Posted by: pcamen on 2019-05-13 16:28:49
I've got a 2GB Jaz drive and a bunch of 1GB cartriges. I've been using this Powerbook 540c I've got it connected to for lots of things, and have installed the Iomega extension and have used a Zip drive without issue. But the Jaz drive doesn't show up at all.
If I use Drive Setup to scan the SCSI bus it shows the SCSI id but says "unsupported device".
The Jaz drive is connected directly to an HDI connector through a cable. It has the compact form of SCSI (the 68 pin one?) and I have a converter cable from that to DB 25 and the HDI connecter has DB 25 at the end. Since I am seeing it in Drive Setup, I don't think the cable is the issue.
I've tried it with and without the termination switch set on the Jaz which doesn't seem to make a difference.
I've tried it with a cartridge in at boot time, and with a cartridge inserted after boot. Nada.
Anyone have any ideas?
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Posted by: K Trueno on 2019-05-13 20:51:16
Do you know if it works on other machines?
Does the amber light turn off after you insert a cartridge? I had one in storage for a while and it failed when I tried to use it, like it just died. Amber light stayed on and it didn’t seem to do the usual head seek which was what it did before.
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Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2019-05-14 06:48:11
Send a couple of cartridges to someone who has a working drive to have them formatted? That will remove one important variable in troubleshooting the drive. Good bug hunting.
edit: Send your adapters along with the drive as well. Got pics of your SCIS2 connector adapter? Those would be the other variables I can think of offhand.
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Posted by: dochilli on 2019-05-17 00:44:36
Iomega driver 4.2 or 4.3?
Zips often use the 4.2.
My JAZ did not work with the 4.2, but with the 4.3
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Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2019-05-17 02:43:54
I thionk the way to go is to modify Drive Setip with ResEdit but I don't know what the volume would be resgistered as.
Have you tried Lido, SilverLining, HDT Toolkit or even a later version of the Iomega Toolkit?
The Jaz 2GB came out reasonably late (1997?) so it my only be supported by the corresponding Iomega driver.
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Posted by: pcamen on 2019-05-22 16:01:48
Okay, discovered my Umax tower has a 1GB Jaz drive in it. The cartridges load fine. That system is running IomegaWare 1.1.3. I'm going to try just copying the extension and control panel to the other Mac I was testing it with, and try the 2GB Jaz drive on this Umax system.
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