That's if the ZIP disks or drives work at all. Horrible technology, bound to fail. Remember the 'click of death' ? Everything iOmega made failed prematurely.
On 26 October 2011 11:27, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > I take it then that the disks are formatted as HFS or HFS plus. This is > problematic. Windows will not recognize it. Perhaps Ubuntu will, if you > install the correct support files, I do not know. But I don't think that > just having drivers for the SCSI card will get you there. You would also > need Zip drivers to get it to properly recognize the zip drive, and I > seriously doubt they have THAT for Ubuntu. > > You may be in a catch 22 here. I would say an old mac with a SCSI port is > your only hope. If you boot the Mac with a zip disk in the drive and > connected, the system will read the drivers off the zip disk, as per the > SCSI specification, and away you go. I think it will have to be OS 8 or OS 9 > though. > > Bob > > > On Oct 26, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > > > I have a lot of useful stuff (mainly old hypercard stacks locked up on a > load of ZIP disks, > > and want to get at them via my Iomega Zip drive. I have a SCSI card lying > around (as one does), > > and wonder if I can get it to function if I jam it into the back of my > Pentium 4, 3 GHz, 2 GB RAM > > Ubuntu machine . . . > > > > Ideas would be gratefully received. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
