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[Solved] Iomega ZIP 100 IDE
Lars:
Has anyone of you ever tried to access the drive with DFSEE?
DFSEE will be able to access the drive even if the OS does not assign a drive letter.
I am led to believe that you need to add LVM info to the volume(s) as LVM did not exist 20 some years ago.
Once that is done, the drive (or rather, the volumes) should show up with drive letter(s).
A brutal way to start from scratch is to have DFSEE wipe the first 63 sectors (or more) with zeros but of course that will lead to complete loss of data on that ZIP disk.
Neil Waldhauer:
I tried DFSee, but DFSee does not see the drive at all. LVM can see the drive, but no operation actually works. I tried renaming the drive, and it says it worked, but when I open it again in LVM, the original lack of disk name appears.
MiniLVM shows an extra unavailable drive with the right size, but no operation is allowed.
I found a USB zip drive and hoked it to an ArcaOS 5.1 beta system. Everything seems to work. I can verify that my zip disks are working. I used this system to assign a drive letter to the disk.
Back on the IDE Zip drive system, the disk with LVM information does not appear. Adding a drive letter does not seem to help.
Olafur Gunnlaugsson:
--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on May 16, 2023, 02:33:36 am ---I tried DFSee, but DFSee does not see the drive at all. LVM can see the drive, but no operation actually works. I tried renaming the drive, and it says it worked, but when I open it again in LVM, the original lack of disk name appears.
MiniLVM shows an extra unavailable drive with the right size, but no operation is allowed.
I found a USB zip drive and hoked it to an ArcaOS 5.1 beta system. Everything seems to work. I can verify that my zip disks are working. I used this system to assign a drive letter to the disk.
Back on the IDE Zip drive system, the disk with LVM information does not appear. Adding a drive letter does not seem to help.
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Wasn't there a kink with the IDE ZIP drives? Did they not show some strange behaviour if they were set up as busmasters, especially with some chipsets? It's been 25 years, but I gave up on IDE ZIP's altogether for some such reason and only used SCSI versions.
I can vaguely recall setting it up for friends a few years later that the most successful setup was having them as a slave on IDE channel 2, with the caveat that most MB's post 2005 only have one IDE channel ...
Igor:
I understood the reason and solved the problem of unstable IOMEGA ZIP 100.
It's all about an unsuccessful design. Magnetic powder flies from the disk to the printed circuit board and forms random connections.
In my case, it helped to remove dust from the printed circuit board of the device.
Unfortunately, I admit that in some cases, random compounds can cause damage to electronic components or the logic of the drive and physical damage of disks.
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