Problem with SCSI zipdrive

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By msd

Paragon (1510)

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17-11-2009, 23:40

Just check your partition size with nfdisk. You will know that it is wrong if it is 32768KB

By Jipe

Paragon (1594)

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18-11-2009, 12:12

on my old Novaxis with normal SCSI zip 100 the only way for working is same ID on Cartridge and Zip
is strange but working !!
now i have a mega-scsi and the ID is 7 for cartridge and 5 for Zip and i don't use my old Novaxis

By AuroraMSX

Paragon (1902)

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21-11-2009, 12:00

I bought an Iomega ZIP100 plus driveYeah, I made the same mistake back when the Zip plus was newly introduced. I had hoped to be able to share/swap the drive and disks between my PC and MSX, using the parallel port on PC and SCSI on the MSX. This turned out to be impossible. I have had long discussions with Iomega back then and eventually traded it for a classical SCSI-only Zip100.

The problem is in the SCSI/parport controller of the drive. Its SCSI implementation is crap and expects the Zip plus to be the only device on the SCSI bus and there are other restrictions on the SCSI Id's. If I recall correctly, the SCSI id of the computer needs to be 0 or 1 and that of the Zip plus can be toggled between 5 and 6 with a switch on the drive.

In short, forget this piece of crap. Trash it.

By Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

Аватар пользователя Retrofan

21-11-2009, 18:50

Make sure partitions are not bigger than 32624. Old versions of nfdisk lets you create partions of 32768KB, which is an invalid size for fat12 partitions Thanks msd, I finally got it work after doing some experiments. Now my pc can read zipdisks created by MSX.

By Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

Аватар пользователя Retrofan

21-11-2009, 18:55

I bought an Iomega ZIP100 plus driveYeah, I made the same mistake back when the Zip plus was newly introduced. I had hoped to be able to share/swap the drive and disks between my PC and MSX, using the parallel port on PC and SCSI on the MSX. This turned out to be impossible. I have had long discussions with Iomega back then and eventually traded it for a classical SCSI-only Zip100.

The problem is in the SCSI/parport controller of the drive. Its SCSI implementation is crap and expects the Zip plus to be the only device on the SCSI bus and there are other restrictions on the SCSI Id's. If I recall correctly, the SCSI id of the computer needs to be 0 or 1 and that of the Zip plus can be toggled between 5 and 6 with a switch on the drive.

In short, forget this piece of crap. Trash it. I agree, it's difficult to get this thing working on msx, but it works without problems on pc and there it becomes very handy because you can use both parallel and scsi. Maybe I will get it to work on msx sometime. Did you try the "terminator-trick" by the way? It will force this zipdrive to be terminated.

By Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

Аватар пользователя Retrofan

27-11-2009, 18:17

I bought an Iomega ZIP100 plus driveYeah, I made the same mistake back when the Zip plus was newly introduced. I had hoped to be able to share/swap the drive and disks between my PC and MSX, using the parallel port on PC and SCSI on the MSX. This turned out to be impossible. I have had long discussions with Iomega back then and eventually traded it for a classical SCSI-only Zip100.

The problem is in the SCSI/parport controller of the drive. Its SCSI implementation is crap and expects the Zip plus to be the only device on the SCSI bus and there are other restrictions on the SCSI Id's. If I recall correctly, the SCSI id of the computer needs to be 0 or 1 and that of the Zip plus can be toggled between 5 and 6 with a switch on the drive.

In short, forget this piece of crap. Trash it. I agree, it's difficult to get this thing working on msx, but it works without problems on pc and there it becomes very handy because you can use both parallel and scsi. Maybe I will get it to work on msx sometime. Did you try the "terminator-trick" by the way? It will force this zipdrive to be terminated.

"terminator-trick" doesn't workSad

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