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Nov 9, 2015 8:50 AM in response to Bruce Aby Allan Jones,It's been a while but my recollection is that, with OSX, the support for ZIP drives became native to the OS. With my PowerMac G4 tower running OS 10.4 and 10.5, my old external USB ZIP 100 drive showed up on the Desktop with my having to installed any drivers as we had to in the pre-OSX days.
Are you having problems getting yours recognized? If so, post some details and we'll see if there is a way to get things running.
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Nov 9, 2015 9:20 AM in response to Bruce Aby ChitlinsCC,Howdy Bruce
Adding to our friend Allan's success reports - I have a PB Pismo Tiger to which I recently plugged up my ZIP Drive = fired right up... I do have all the Iomega software installed from way back when, however.
best luck
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Nov 9, 2015 11:59 AM in response to Allan Jonesby Allan Jones,Oops, the caffeine hadn;t kicked in when I typed my reply earlier. This:
...my old external USB ZIP 100 drive showed up on the Desktop with my having to installed any drivers...
should read:
...my old external USB ZIP 100 drive showed up on the Desktop without my having to installed any drivers...
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Nov 9, 2015 12:39 PM in response to Allan Jonesby ChitlinsCC,[chuckle = well caffeinated]
I learned speed reading as a teen - both boon an bane. I retained only the "good parts" in 'scanning' your post:
... with OSX, the support for ZIP drives became native to the OS. With my PowerMac G4 tower running OS 10.4 and 10.5, my old external USB ZIP 100 drive showed up on the Desktop...
stopped reading after that
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Nov 10, 2015 9:03 AM in response to Allan Jonesby Bruce A,Thanks for your reply.
I plugged the Zip 100 USB in.
The system profiler recognized it, but I can't find it anywhere on the desktop.
I inserted a Zip disc with data on it, and nothing appeared.
iOmega tools said there was a valid drive.
Any ideas?
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Nov 10, 2015 9:52 AM in response to Bruce Aby Allan Jones,Does it show up in Disk Utility?
If so, you may only need to change your Finder preferences. By default, the only thing that shows on the desktop is the hard drive icon. You can change that by checking all the boxes under "Show these items on the Desktop":
[screenie is from 10.4.11 but it should be quite similar in 10.5.8]
