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bluestreak
11-29-2004, 07:38 AM
hi all,

just a simple question, will an Apple atapi 100mb internal zip drive work on a PC?

i'm guessing it should since it is IEDE.

thanks in advance

rubberduck
11-29-2004, 08:08 AM
Yes. Make sure you check the jumpers on the back as they are usual set to cable select.

brzilian
11-29-2004, 01:33 PM
I think the better question would be why even bother with a Zip drive?

Vertizor
11-29-2004, 03:41 PM
I think the better question would be why even bother with a Zip drive?
How else is he going to get the data off the zip disks? :D

brzilian
11-29-2004, 06:34 PM
How else is he going to get the data off the zip disks? :D
I gave up on Zip drives 6-7 years ago when I lost all my work to the "click of death" syndrome all those drives developed eventually. CD and DVD burners a much more cost effective nowadays.

Vertizor
11-29-2004, 07:02 PM
Recordable optical media can be just as flaky. It's amazing the number of people who don't know how to properly care and clean their discs and end up with coasters.

I lost 10 gigs worth of data from a firewire hard drive when I told my Mac to stop a file Move operation. It still thought I didn't want the files on the original source so deleted them for me. Stupid. But because I told it to cancel the operation it thought I didn't want the files on the destination either. So where the hell did my files go? :shrug:

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