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tedstruk

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Does anyone know what kind of cable the internal ZIP 100 drives used? Can I use a straight floppy or does it take a special cable?
 

alesserfate

Dec 5, 2014
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No you can't use a floppy drive connector cable - that is a 16BIT IDE cable. An internal Zip100 drive if i recall correctly used a 32 bit IDE cable, same as millions of hard drives did around in late 90s to late 2000's. You can get a USB IDE controller to use it with a modern computer, or pull one out of a USB-IDE hard drive enclosure, and in case of an older desktop of that era you probably have that controller on board. Don't forget to set the Primary/Slave jumper on the Zip 100 drive depending on the number of units on the IDE cable (usually max of 2) and enable it in your BIOS.
 
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