Booting A1200 from Zip/Jazz drive possible??

[hppacito]

There are two version of those Zip drives, the normal one and the "plus" version, that actually says Plus in yellow on the front.

It has also a switch in the back to select the id from 5 to 6. That one works both in parallel mode and in SCSI mode with the same cable.

Regarding PCMCIA booting, ca I hook a Flash hard disk there and use it as a hard disk, or only ram/rom cards work there ?

[hppacito]

SOrry to interfere, but this can be useful.

The 7407 is an open collector buffer, so to make it work you will need a 1k resistor connected between the output and +5V (this resistor is named pull-up resistor).

Maybe will be better to use a 74244 or 74245 because they can drive more lines ( per package.

Hope it helps and is not redundant/off topic :-)

[hppacito]

Don't forget to double check the circuit, just to be sure that all connections are were they should be. Brw, don't overheat the IC, better use sockets for them.