Does 10.6.8 allow saving to a zip 100 disk?

Zip drives have been too old for at least the last five years. They hardly hold anything, compared to a flash drive. Essentially, no one uses them anymore.

I have an internal Zip 100 IDE drive with 16 brand new disks I've tried to sell a few times on Craig's List and eBay for only $10. Couldn't sell them even at that price.

It also falls under the category of "technology marches on". Floppy drives are dead, IDE is just about dead (replaced by SATA), Iomega's similar Jazz drives are dead, CRTs are dead, and many other computer related devices.

I have a USB ZIP-250 drive that I haven't used in years, and I have some even older ZIP-100 disks for it. I am running OS X 10.6.8. Out of curiosity, I hooked up the ZIP drive to a powered USB hub, and put in an old ZIP-100 data disk. It mounted right away, and my ancient files (early 1990s!) were intact and could be copied and read. I could not write to the disk either however. I then checked the volume format, and it was "Mac OS Standard". I next used Disk Utility to erase and re-format an old ZIP-100 disk as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). That worked fine, and the ZIP volume was now writable and behaved "normally."

I don't know whether my ZIP-250 drive is using drivers supplied by Snow Leopard, or whether it is still using old drivers that might have been migrated from my old PPC computer.

I then checked the volume format, and it was "Mac OS Standard".

Good catch, jsd2. I had forgotten that Snow Leopard, and maybe Leopard too, dropped support for writing Mac OS Standard. It doesn't even exist as a choice in Disk Utility for erasing a drive.

Zip drives were very unreliable even when new. Using one now makes no sense.