[clug] Reading old ZIP drive

Hal Ashburner hal at ashburner.info
Mon Feb 16 19:14:17 MST 2015


Pretty sure linux has drivers for the drive and it will appear under
/dev/sd* where you can mount it given whatever filesystem is relevant.
(Last time I did it it was red hat 7 or so and /dev/hdd( so details
may vary slightly but I can't imagine the drivers have gone).

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?
>
> Also, does anyone have a iomega superdisk 120 drive? We also have one such
> disk
> that we want to read.
>
> TIA
>
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