i guess il have to get the psu and try itĪnd if that doesnt work ill just have to order a new drive. Like i said im not able to eject the disk and i know that when i connected a non-original power adapter the drive just acted as tho the eject button was stuck being pressed!Ĭontinually ejecting. both the ZIP1394A firewire adapter and ZIP250USBPCM aswell. The way i read the packaging was that the drive would power itself in entirety from the firewire power. and i cant eject the disk that i just inserted and its not reading it at all. I have plugged it in just now via firewire into a windows 7-32bit pc and there is a light on the adapter part that is lit to indicate its recieving powerīut the drive itself does not power on. I also checked here to see the original packaging of hte ZIP1394A:Īnd it says on one of hte images that its powered by firewire. This manual refers to the connector as the "ZIP250 connector" rather than a SCSI interface. Here i just found the manual for the zip1394a: I have also got the firewire adapter which connects to the db25/SCSI connector: (jab: Did you seriously not ever before manually/force eject a disc?) If you want to eject your ZIP, then use a straightened paperclip. I advise you to NOT get what jimjimx points to. Parallel Port Zip drives are NOT supported in Windows 7. IomegaWare software does NOT work with Windows 7, so features supplied by IomegaWare will not be available. If you want to buy a power supply (for using USB, not necessary for IEEE 1394 bus-power), then seek Iomega SSW5. 'Zip® 100MB, 250MB or 750MB USB, ATAPI, FireWire or SCSI drives should work with native Windows 7 drivers. By my knowledge, no SCSI/USB dual interface Zip drive ever existed. IIRC, that later slim and low-power drive came with a redesigned rounded disc cartridge (looks like Sony UMD). (If I am wrong, then maybe Z250PCMCIA is just a dumb cable assembly and 16-bit PC Card interface is inside Z250USBPCM.)Ī later ZIP drive could be USB bus-powered. Although I did not disassemble Z250PCMCIA, I assume its role is PATA host controller to that external PATA drive Z250USBPCM. Z250USBPCM came with a 16-bit PC Card: Z250PCMCIA, which had a captive cable leading to that mini-Centronics 50 pin connector. Said connecter carries some kind of Parallel ATA. Z250USBPCM is bus-powered through said connector, by 16-bit PC Card or IEEE 1394 bus. It has a connector, which one might assume wrongly "looks like SCSI on mini Centronics 50-pins HPCN50". Since you mention month of production, I assume the sticker is not missing. What is your subject's model? It would be excusable if your specimen was missing its identification label sticker: then, you might not know what model you hold, and you might assume "SCSI". I do not understand why some people are of a certain personality, who ask for help yet do not help others to provide help.