Iomega Zip disks & OS X - your experiences?

[incognegro]

i know many have moved away from zip disks (with good reason), but i'm wondering if those of you who still use them have had problems with them under OS X, as described on this page:

http://www.mrbarrett.com/archives/2004/0...nd_zi.html

thanks for all constructive feedback. FWIW, i don't use them now.

[Seacrest]

Once in a blue moon we would get them from clients, and sometimes they were a problem. Haven't seen any for a couple of years now. 99% of our file intake is now Internet-based.

I have never had a problem with them myself on Jag or Panther.
I still have a drive in my old B&W which I used to copy all my old zips a couple years ago.

[RonT]

No problems here. Powerbook Pismo is my main entry point for all things personal & business. I use the zip drive in it to backup everything to my G4 and have never had a problem. I guess I've been lucky beacuse I've never had a Zip disk fail under any circumstances. BTW - OS10.4.3 is the OS on both computers.

Ron

[raz]

My SCSI Zip sent my QS into immediate kernel panic when I was upgrading to Tiger. Fortunately, I'd already moved the contents of the zips to the HD (with another HD as backup). The drive is in the parts box in the basement.

I haven't missed it.

[cbelt3]

yah, the SCSI issue was common. My internal G4 IDE zip drive still works. Well enough for me to get archived stuff off the ZIP drive collection and burn it onto a less obsolete medium- DVD-RAM. (sigh... That's life on the trailing edge of technology).

[PeterB]

raz, the SCSI problem with Tiger -- I figured that out awhile back. It is usable (if you want to use it.)

Myself, I haven't had any problems with Zips under X specifically, though I've had lots of problems with Zips in general... the COD, mostly.

[Racer X]

again, what was your solution peter?

[PeterB]

Racer X, took some hunting, but look here:

http://forums.dealmac.com/read.php?1,231...37#2315137
http://forums.dealmac.com/read.php?1,234...70#2348170

[Racer X]

I'll give it a try before too long. I have always used active terminators. I even have one, with an adapter, hooked up to my SCSI Zip.

I have been fortunate to have never had any significant SCSI voodoo. Now FW flakeyness, that's another problem...

[PeterB]

Racer X, I've had both SCSI voodoo AND Firewire hinkiness. The difference, I've found, is that with the SCSI voodoo, it's been relatively easy to track down the problem; with the Firewire hinkiness, the problem has often been that something was permanently blown, and unrecoverable. For that reason, in some ways, I actually prefer SCSI.