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Non-Tech : Iomega Thread without Iomega -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BeachBum who wrote (5738)	1/13/1999 8:30:00 AM
From: David Colvin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

David... You are aware the external scsi drive has 25 pin scsi connectors ? Are you using it on a Mac or PC? Thanks for the heads up! No, I wasn't aware of that. I have a PC. I have a similar setup ( 1gb Jaz, Jaz Jet pci scsi cntrl and a Zip+ drive) I cheated and bought a 50 pin ribbon to 25 pin dsub convertor from the Mac section of a computer store. I was chastised for doing this by a poster on this thread and not long after that IOM had a press release saying they couldn't guarantee the performance with this type of configuration. I did this for physical reasons I really don't need the speed. As it turns out I haven't had any problems I've even played video games straight off the disk (Forsaken) that are very intense. I guess I'll also have to cheat and buy a 50 pin ribbon to 25 pin dsub converter. I was, however, aware of the problems associated with "daisy chaining" a zip + drive in SCSI mode....that's exactly why I ordered a pure SCSI external zip drive because there are no such "daisy chaining" problems associated with that model. Evidently, the zip + drive's problems somehow lie in the parallel port/SCSI detection device built-in to the drive. I've read about users that simply could not get a zip + drive to function properly in SCSI mode while "daisy chained" to another SCSI device. They do purportedly work fine if they are the only device on the "chain". FWIW, I've read that when originally invented, the zip drive was actually a SCSI device and Iomega simply had to add another chip to create the parallel port version, thus enabling the the parallel port version to function as a parallel port device. Dave