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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Anonymous MOS on July 22, 2007, 10:19:15 PM

Title: Drivers for a parallel external 135MB EZ Drive?
Post by: Anonymous MOS on July 22, 2007, 10:19:15 PM

Hey guys,

Does anyone know if there is a driver for Workbench 3.1 to use an parallel external 135MB EZ Drive?

I've got an old one and would love to be able to use it on my A1200.

Thanks,
Steve

Title: Re: Drivers for a parallel external 135MB EZ Drive?
Post by: Jeff on July 23, 2007, 12:20:48 AM

I had the SCSI version many years ago when you could buy them new. Although it did work the drive VERY unreliable.

I seem to remember something about the Amiga's printer port not providing the proper signals to allow the parallel version to work. The SCSI version didn't need drivers and as I recall you could even boot Workbench from it. All of mine died from the dreaded "Click of Death". Syquest warrantied the first 2 or 3 of them for me.

-J  

Title: Re: Drivers for a parallel external 135MB EZ Drive?
Post by: Anonymous MOS on July 23, 2007, 01:19:53 AM

Yeah, that figures.  I made a mistake when I bought it way back when they first came out, because the Zip Drives ended up being the standard.  :-(

Thanks,
Steve

Title: Re: Drivers for a parallel external 135MB EZ Drive?
Post by: Jeff on July 23, 2007, 01:46:04 AM

The ZIP drives ended up being quite reliable by contrast. I would still pick the SCSI version though if it were me.

Title: Re: Drivers for a parallel external 135MB EZ Drive?
Post by: rkauer on July 23, 2007, 07:18:29 AM

 

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Jeff wrote:
 The ZIP drives ended up being quite reliable by contrast. I would still pick the SCSI version though if it were me.

 Or even the IDE "internal" version, if you have an IDE splitter and a towerised Amiga. IDE versions are a bit slowly than SCSI, but are great, and a lot faster than parallel ones.

 But there is a hack on aminet to build an external interface to deal with parallel ZIP drives, maybe you can make/use/adapt it to your EZ-drive. :idea: