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Xavier Louis Tardy <xltardy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Pour info, sur les zip de Iomega, il y a des modèles ATAPI et des modèles
IDE, et ça je n'en savais rien :
'Despite the prevalence of ATAPI in new drives, Iomega initially chose IDE
for their internal ZIP 100 drives since IDE was capable of handling 100
megabyte capacity, ZIP transfer speed isnt super fast, and there were
still plenty of PCs in use that had controllers with issues working with
ATAPI drives, even if they were 2 gig or less. Shopping for a ZIP 100 for a
retro computer? The IDE ones have a black eject button with the activity
LED next to it. Emergency eject is via a metal pull rod with a bent end
recessed into a dimple on the front. ATAPI ones have a clear eject button
with the LED glowing through it. Emergency eject is via a pin hole on the
back end of the drive, so it had better be an emergency slow enough for you
to take the computer apart. I kept a few of the IDE ZIP drives on hand for
people who wanted to add them to older computers, but who were too cheap to
spring for a new I/O controller.
