![]() ) that have the more streamlined, opaque blue cases (there is a proper name for that case style but I can't recall it). However the good news for people like me who still have a bunch of old Zip disks (PC and Mac formatted) with some data that we occasionally want to retrieve is that you can mount them and access their contents perfectly well with the "newer" style USB Zip Drives (mine is P/N 30897300, model Z100USBS, manu. Although you may find an older Iomega driver for early Mac OS releases it is actually a PowerPC version that, first of all, would require Rosetta (of course no longer included with OS X) and that driver is certainly far too old anyway. ), a blue transparent case one that is boxy and has its own power supply and I think is technically second generation, is not recognized by my Mac Mini (late 2012) running El Capitan 10.11.4. First, however, my older style USB ZIP drive (P/N 04041100, model Z100USB, manu. To update the information related to this rather old thread I can verify that even in El Capitan some external Zip 100 drives will work perfectly, with no additional software needed. ![]() The short answer is find a USB(or Firewire) ZIP drive and you will be completely fine. ![]() Often, I'll dump a bunch of images onto a ZIP disk and then use my beige G3(which has both an internal floppy and internal ZIP drive) to actually make the floppies.īut, then, all that is probably more than you want to know. When I need to make floppies from images, this capability comes in really handy as the only way I know to do that is with a computer that has an internal floppy drive and is running OS 9 or earlier. I play with a lot of older Macs, and often times dowloading extensions or software on my MBP and then dumping them onto a ZIP disk is the easiest and most painless way to get the files to old computers. I use this with my MBP somewhat frequently also, both to read/write floppies and LS-120 disks. These were popular when the first iMacs came out as a floppy drive replacement. I'll also add that I have a "bondi blue" Imation USB LS-120 drive. The drive will even eject the disk automatically when I unmount the disk in the OS. The drive mounts and unmounts just like like any flash drive. I use an Iomega brand bus-powered USB Zip drive all the time with my Macbook Pro and OS X 10.9.
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