Emax

What's the difference between a scsi & parallel zip drive?

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From: emax@yahoogroups.com [mailto:emax@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
i5c4r7
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 4:32 PM
To: emax@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [emax] Re: connecting zip drive to emax 2


Hi, I have the same setup myself, except I have no internal HD.  A few
things you can check:

-Is the termination switch on the zip drive turned on or off?  If it
is the only external HD, it should be turned on.  

-Does your internal HD have jumpers set to give it a SCSI ID?  If not,
when the zip drive is hooked up, your EmaxII could be confused as to
which device should be taking SCSI device number 5 or 6 (depending on
what you have your drive set to).  

-Are you positive it is a SCSI zip drive?  Believe it or not, I have
heard stories about people who purchased second hand zip drives,
assuming that they are SCSI but, apparently they actually turned out
to be parallel zip drives.  I'm not sure how true this is but, they
would both be 25db ports so, they would look very much alike.

good luck!

-s*

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "fred" <dhffl_landsharks@y...> wrote:
> 
> hello i was wondering if someone could help me with this.
> i have an emax2 i recently bought an external iomega zip 100 which i 
> hooked up to the scsi port on the back of the emax, powered up the 
> drive and then turned on the emax. when the zip drive is hooked up my 
> emax cannot find it or my internal hd which is scsi#1. floppy is 
> scsi#0 zip drive is not found at all. i'm sure i'm doing somthing 
> wrong but i cannot find out what. any help would be greatly 
> appreciated.
> thank you.






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