When I was a kid and my only disposable income came from delivering junk mail on Sundays, the only SCSI peripheral I could afford was a Zip drive, which I used as a replacement for a bigger hard disk. I wanted to play a game? Got to put in my "Games" Zip disk. It did work out really well for me, I mostly avoided the "click of death" (only had it on one disk, which I repaired using the "cut off the outer edge of the disk" method)
One dream I always had was to fill up all the IDs in my SCSI chain. This is the ongoing missing of the project described in this session.
Current SCSI tower of power status:
SCSI devices not working: MD Data drive (Sony MDH-10)
SCSI devices not used in chain: SCSI-Ethernet adapter (Asante Micro EN/SC)
To be added: Hand scanner Ezier Gray
For more SCSI devies, my wishlist includes an external Apple SCSI harddisk
Planning on writing more on the individual devices and SCSI driver software here
When I was still a newbie to HARD OFF[LINK], SCSI stuff seemed rare, so when I saw this drive I picked it up. At the time I still only owned the 8500 which had a built-in CD-ROM drive, but this external drive ended being pretty handy since it was much faster (24x) and as a burner it is much more reliable with CD-R and CD-RW discs.
Magneto-Optical was really popular in Japan back in the day. I'd seen a lot of MO drives at HARD OFF but they were either for USB, internal IDE, or were missing some proprietary barrel jack DC adapter. When I spotted this AC-powered SCSI model I picked it up right away. MO was really great. Compact, freely licensed, and decently fast. I wonder why it never caught on in the west. Instead back in Sweden I bought a Zip drive and lost my data to the Click of Death.
My 500 yen drive has one flaw - it won't stay in an ejected state. Whenever it ejects it clunks the disc holder back into an insterted state. So when you insert a disc, you have to hit eject so the mechanism lines up with the slot, then quickly jam the disc in. when you eject, you have to pull the disc out instantly or it will jam.
I found another drive of the same model and have yet to test it, hopefully it works well.
I also want to pick up a USB model to use as quick sneakernet file swapping method
Under Construction
summary: I've bought 2 drives and countless discs and the click of death wont escape me, fuck Iomega.
As a Mac user in the 90's, reading MacWorld (Sweden) you couldn't escape the mentions of SyQuest drives. My uncle also had one, and it seemed fantastic. Massive disks! When I as a middle schooler got a job delivering junk mail, I could suddenly afford a disk expansion for my Centris 660AV. My choices were between an external hard disk, a modern SyQuest drive, and a Zip drive. Even then as an uninformed teen, the writing was on the wall for SyQuest and I bought a Zip drive.
So when I started collecting SCSI devices a classic SyQuest drive was a given. But SyQuest never caught on in Japan. Months on Yahoo Auctions and Mercari turned up nothing older then the more modern EZ135 drives. So I ended up getting one from eBay through the dreaded Global Shipping Program.
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summary; it worked but the discs didnt. found local discs that worked, had some interesting stuff on them for a voyeur
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summary; picked this up as a nice portable CD-ROM drive, it turns out it's a PD drive which is far more interesting
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summary; had never used tape before, it was interesting
