ed1475 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) Here's a video I uploaded of a 40mb Zip Drive for the Coleco ADAM. It uses a MicroFox IDE controller card and an Iomega Zip drive instead of the usual CF card setup. I got this several years ago in an eBay auction. Edited March 7, 2020 by ed1475 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 That is very cool. I can't seem to get my iomega 250 to work. Maybe it's only able to use the 100(which I don't have) Anyway it's a nice setup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 1 hour ago, rietveld said: That is very cool. I can't seem to get my iomega 250 to work. Maybe it's only able to use the 100(which I don't have) Anyway it's a nice setup Without doing the detective work myself... - Does the Iomega 250 Zip Drive use an E-IDE interface and if so could this be the issue? - Are there jumper settings on the drive that can be adjusted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) 12 minutes ago, NIAD said: Without doing the detective work myself... - Does the Iomega 250 Zip Drive use an E-IDE interface and if so could this be the issue? - Are there jumper settings on the drive that can be adjusted? it seems that the IDE does not work with atapi Zip drives. i assume that the original Zip 100 was not an atapi and as such does work . I tried all combinations of jumper settings but no luck. I guess that the larger Zip drives use the same ATA Packet interface as CD roms Edited March 7, 2020 by rietveld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPix Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 The 250 should fall back to PIO mode if ATAPI isn’t supported. Weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamcon Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 8 hours ago, rietveld said: it seems that the IDE does not work with atapi Zip drives. i assume that the original Zip 100 was not an atapi and as such does work . I tried all combinations of jumper settings but no luck. I guess that the larger Zip drives use the same ATA Packet interface as CD roms BINGO!!! The drive must be labeled as a Zip IDE in the id label; ATAPI drives will not work. These are hard to find and are the only ones that will work. If I recall, the 100 version is the only one that will work. The small Sparq drives work the same way as the Zip. Other than a cool adaptation, the mainline IDE hd or the CF versions are easier and more reliable to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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