I highly doubt it would work with an eMac. Zip only ever made SCSI,
USB and IDE drivers for Mac so I'd be extremely surprised it a
parallel Zip worked (though, it's possible that you have a SCSI Zip
(either 25 or 50 pin connector))!
But, I don't know if there's a solution to get SCSI to work with
FireWire or USB (I seem to remember that there was a SCSI-USB solution
in the early iMac days but I don't know how reliable it was...
besides, it'd probably be cheaper just to find yourself a used USB
Zip).
Eric.
On 6/20/05, John Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, it could conceivably be PC serial. That's only about $15 to
> convert Mac serial or you can use a PC serial to USB adapter. But,
> it doesn't clear up whether the Zip drivers would work with such a
> setup.
>
> On Jun 20, 2005, at 9:34 PM, Patrick Mead-Robins wrote:
>
> > Stupid me, I wasn't thinking and please disregard my last post.
> >
> > John is correct, it HAS to be a different port. Definitely *_NOT_*
> > Mac serial.
> > Besides, using a Mac serial connection would just be tooooo slooow.
> >
> > Iomega used to have a trade-in/trade-up program for older devices
> > if it's still going that might be a better solution with Paul's
> > newer Mac.
> >
> > Patrick Mead-Robins
> > Mac Solutions
> > 652-1860
> > -----------------------------
> >
> > At 8:48 PM -0300 6/20/05, John Christie wrote:
> >
> >> On Jun 20, 2005, at 8:01 PM, Paul Thompson wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have a serial port ZIP drive which works well and I'd like to
> >>> use it with my eMac which of course has USB & Firewire ports. Are
> >>> there any adaptors which change the serial plug to one of the
> >>> others?
> >>>
> >>
> >> A: are you sure you don't mean parallel port?
> >>
> >> B: It may actually be a hybrid if it is a parallel port drive.
> >> Later models worked on both parallel and SCSI.
> >>
> >> I've never heard of a serial port drive.
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