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I have a Mac SE original version that has no HD or floppy drive I also have a SCSI ZIP Drive and a ATAPI ZIP Drive in a PowerMac G3. I tried to format a 100MB ZIP disk on the PowerMac with FWB Hard Disk ToolKit 4.0 and copy a System Folder from System 6.0.8 on it. I put the zip disk in the Mac SE SCSI Zip Drive and it won't boot, I have termination on and SCSI ID set to 6, it is plugged into the motherboard with a 50-pin ribbon cable (same one used for the HD). I think that it wont boot because of the FWB Toolkit media drivers as I read online that only the IOMEGA 4.2 drivers allow the ZIP disk to boot the Mac.
I tried using the 4.2 drivers but they are incompatible with the ATAPI version of the ZIP drive. I thought that if someone with a 100MB ZIP disk formatted with the 4.2 drivers could dd (copy block by block) the disk and upload it online and I could copy the raw image into the zip disk and then it would boot the Mac, would that work?? Not positive If I remember right, and when I get some rest after I work tonight ill try it, the driver for the zip must be on the disk in the system folder. Also hard drive must be removed from the SE or it will fail (unplugging cable should be fine). If its the dual floppy version you should have at least one floppy that works. Only thing is the Mac uses MFS and its why you need a driver for it, but it may still need formatting to work.
Ill let you know after I get done messing around with mine tomorrow. IIRC, Iomega mucked about with putting drivers onto the Zip Disk and NOT putting drivers onto the disk. It depended on which Iomega Zip Tools version was used to format the disk.
If you use the Iomega Zip Tools 3.5.3 to 'Format with Surface Verify', then it should place the driver as an invisible driver partition on the Zip Disk. You MUST use the Iomega Zip Tools to format the disk. This is the only way to get the driver onto the disk. Also, make sure the disk is HFS-Standard format and NOT HFS+ (or HFS-Extended). Note that Iomega Zip Tools was later renamed to IomegaWare - the two are different, and IomegaWare NEVER puts a driver onto the disk. The other thing you may need to do, is to put the Zip Disk into the drive and apply power to the Zip Drive BEFORE you power on the Mac. This allows the Zip drive to have the Iomega SCSI driver ready to pass to the Mac when the Mac polls the drive.
I'm not sure if this will run on the G3 you have, but here is. Reading and Writing to Zip Disk in OS 10.8.5 to OS 8.6 Yes, you heard correctly.to 8.6! Long story short, I had a client that needed to use Zip disks (100mb), on OS 10.8.5 as well as 8.6 (Beige G3).
Disks formatted in 'Standard' format, cannot be written to in 10.8.5 (just read). Disks formatted 'Extended' format with Disk Utility on 10.8.5, could not be read on OS 8.6 (wanted to initialize it).
After an hour or so, figured out we needed to format the zip disks in 10.4.11 (on a G4 with Disk Utility), extended format, then we could read and write on the other OS's. Just FYI for those who would ever need to go through that process. Well, looks like that version is for Bernouli drives - besides, If you're running OS 9 you should use Iomega Driver Installer v4.3 or the completely re-arranged/rewritten IomegaWare v1.1.3 IIRC.
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My bad for skimming your post. Sadly, my home server is offline with a crapped-out power supply and I can't look through my notes, but IIRC Iomega Installer v4.3 was the last version that writes a driver to the Zip disk - Then, Iomega re-wrote it as 'IomegaWare' and started from version 1 again.
Reformatting with Iomega Tools (included in Iomega Install v4 and higher) allows a reformat with surface test (which is the only way Zips should be formatted IMHO). I can't recall if the Iomega Tools supplied with IomegaWare includes that functionality but I believe it does. At some point (driver version 4.3 I think) support for ATA Zip drives was added to the driver. Bare with me as I'm running tests via SheepShaver emulation without a Zip drive so my advice comes from experience over 15 years ago. Well, looks like that version is for Bernouli drives - besides, If you're running OS 9 you should use Iomega Driver Installer v4.3 or the completely re-arranged/rewritten IomegaWare v1.1.3 IIRC. My bad for skimming your post. Sadly, my home server is offline with a crapped-out power supply and I can't look through my notes, but IIRC Iomega Installer v4.3 was the last version that writes a driver to the Zip disk - Then, Iomega re-wrote it as 'IomegaWare' and started from version 1 again.
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Reformatting with Iomega Tools (included in Iomega Install v4 and higher) allows a reformat with surface test (which is the only way Zips should be formatted IMHO). I can't recall if the Iomega Tools supplied with IomegaWare includes that functionality but I believe it does. At some point (driver version 4.3 I think) support for ATA Zip drives was added to the driver. Bare with me as I'm running tests via SheepShaver emulation without a Zip drive so my advice comes from experience over 15 years ago. Okay, so I've been trying the better part of a few weeks now.
Either the systems I have are misssing extensions or this/that, and it won't let me format the Zip Drive with the files listed here. I even tried reformatting with Mac OS 9.2 (Macos9lives) and I guess the CD I used keeps failing when trying to open the instalation, or my CD Drive in the iBook G3 Clamshell is going bad (keeps spinning up/down eventually failing after a while-music cds work perfectly fine). I just need a Zip Disk with Mac OS 6 and 7. Can you or anyone else do the special format and put those files on and send the disk to me? I can't help with a physical disk - sorry about that.
I'm intrigued about your clamshell ibook. If you go into the control panel 'Extensions manager' and select 'MacOS 8.6 All' from the 'Selected set' pop-up, it should warn you if any extensions are missing. If that's ok, then reboot and install the iomegaware 4.0.2 from the previous post and reboot again. The tray loading CD drives are pretty much well-known for failing - there could be other reasons for the spin-up spin-down problem. Do you have a different brand of CD-R that appears to be a darker color?