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Re: [emax] Emax Zip Drive

2010-03-01 by RJ Kaufman

So what's a cheap good cf drive you can recommend. Are the flash cards  
as cheap as zip disks?



On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:24 PM, Dave Sotnick <sotnickd@...> wrote:

> With the Emax I you must use a ZIP drive that can be set to SCSI ID  
> 0. All
> external ZIP drives I have come across can only be set to SCSI ID 5  
> or 6.
>
> While Compact Flash (CF) is a better option, if you're going to use  
> ZIP
> drives, you'll need an INTERNAL SCSI ZIP drive, since they have  
> jumpers that
> you can set to any SCSI ID (all jumpers off/open sets the drive to the
> required ID 0).
>
> Hope that helps,
> Dave
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:50 PM, leavesstillgreen
> <errorspending@...>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> So, my miniscribe hard drive broken in my Emax. I'd like to replace  
>> it with
>> an external zip drive.
>> Can I just buy any SCSI zip drive off ebay and hook it up?
>>
>> I haven't found any good instructions for this yet.
>>
>>
>>
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