I have an Iomega Zip Drive plugged (usb) into my iMac running OS X 10.6.8, and it mounts zip disks with no problem. Do you not have an old usb Mac you could use?
On 2011-10-26, at 2:19 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.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. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html> -Dr. John R. Vokey _______________________________________________ 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
