![]() All drives show up in the correct positions during the BIOS starts but don't necessarily show up in Windows My Computer or in Disk Management. I got the Startech card anaboland said to try and it had similar strange results. I have set allthings up for sharing but clicking on a drive, it says not shared and the Share button is grayed out. I have gone through the BIOS setup and can't seem to find anything there and currently have scratched all the rest of the hair off the top of my head.Īlso, haven't figured sharing out on the computer, either. I know this sounds strange but evidently all six potentials don't work together for some strange reason. I found by trial and error that I can get all but zip drive recognized if I put both disks on one cable on SIIG card and the DVD ROM on the other cable. I called SIIG and did tests they suggested and they said the card is working. The SIIG card does have Win7 drivers inside Win7. When I added the SIIG card with two drives, it no longer put the MB PATA devices in My Computer even though it recognized them in BIOS Swapping positions (swap cable plug ins) It only recognized the zip and DVD from SIIG but the other drives were not recognized on MB in Win7 but were detected in BIOS. When built, it recognized and assigned a letter to zip drive. I built OS with only the C-Drive on SATA and both the Zip(slave) and DVD-ROM (master) on motherboard PATA. If I swap the DVD writer with the Zip Drive, BIOS shows the zip drive as an ATAPI device Still does not appear in My Computer or Computer Disk Manager. When finished booting, the Zip drive is not in My Computer or Computer Disk Management. When booting computer, BIOS for the SIIG shows the three drives, BIOS for MB shows the DVD burner ![]() One Cable has two drives, E, F Other cable has Iomega Zip PATA: one cable with Pioneer DVD writer on M Serial ATA: C, D, F drives.boot on C, Blue Ray Burner on N Mostly all new stuff.ĪSUS P6TSE motherboard with Intel i7-930 Quad Processor Too bad there's no USB equivalent of that now.I upgraded (?) my video editing system and am still in the basic stages. Snow Leopard, which is what I think I was running the last time I used the drive). Other than it showing up in the System Report, there is no sign that the computer sees the drive.Īnyone have other ideas? I was thinking of scheduling a Genius Bar appointment and asking them to borrow a boot drive for older OSes (e.g. (I haven't tried a Tech Tool Pro since it appears to cost money.) I've rebooted without the disks inserted in the drive, rebooted with disks inserted, rebooted and immediately inserted a disk and held the option key, all without success. They aren't listed in diskutil either, and Disk Genius doesn't see them. The light on the drive blinks fast for a minute or so, then blinks slow until I eject the disk. When I insert any of the 3 disks, the drive spins for a second, then stops. With both computers, when the drive is attached and I run a system report, the USB Zip 250 drive appears in system report, and the serial # is detected. I've tried hooking the drive up to two different macs, one running High Sierra, the other running El Capitan. I'm using a USB external Zip 250 drive, and trying without success to mount 3 Zip disks, all 100 MB, all Mac formatted. Too bad there's no USB equivalent of that, did you ever figure out how to get your Zip disks to mount? Once loaded, the driver should remain loaded until the Mac is shut down or restarted.īack in the days of the Classic Mac OS, there was a utility called SCSI Probe that would "scan the bus" while running, and load drivers and drives where found. When you boot with the option key held down, this instructs the Mac to "scan all connected drives" to look for bootable copies of the OS.Įven though the ZIP disk doesn't have a copy of the OS on it, the Mac should scan the USB bus, and load the on-disk driver. When you get to the finder, do you see the ZIP disk on the desktop?Įvery Mac-formatted ZIP disk has a copy of the "on-disk driver" on it. Click on it with the mouse pointer and hit return.ĥ. Hold down the option key on the keyboard (keep holding it until the startup manager appears)Ĥ. Push ZIP disk all the way in, and then.ģc. Now - power on, and IMMEDIATELY (or as quickly as possible)ģb. Have a ZIP disk "halfway inserted" into the driveģa. Power down - all the way off (leave ZIP drive connected).Ģ.
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