[clug] Reading old ZIP drive

David Austin david at d-austin.net
Mon Feb 16 19:13:03 MST 2015


On 17 February 2015 at 12:38, Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:

> A friend wants to recover files from an old iomega ZIP disk.
>
> It is a parallel port ZIP 100. We have the actual drive, is there a
> program that
> can access the parallel port and talk to it?
>

The Linux kernel can access it (or used to be able to - it might be
something due
for obsolescence).  I have an old motherboard with a parallel port (driving
my
CNC mill).

David


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