When inserting a disk, there is no lengthly spin-up time like a SyQuest drive so the disk is almost instantly available. When a disk is ejected, there is no spin-down time so the disk ejects at least as fast if not faster than a floppy disk, and leaves the drive with a very solid and satisfying "ker-CHUNK" sound. Q: I want more information and, gee-golly-gosh-darn-it, this FAQ just isn't enough! How can I get in touch with the folks who make the Zip?
A: It turns out that there's a whole lot of different ways you can contact Iomega. The voice telephone number for their corporate offices is , but DON'T call there unless absolutely necessary. Iomega has been smart enough to supply about half a dozen alternative telephone resources. An Interactive Voice Help system 24 hours is available at or if you're in the area code. But wait! There's more! Iomega operates a BBS at A: Yes and no. By itself, the Zip drive ships with a USA-standard power supply which can't be used everywhere around the world.
I've received some reports from several people who state that this power supply works in several different countries. Zip owners in the USA who travel within the country with their Zip drive may want to consider this power supply as it is indeed smaller and lighter than the standard power supply almost half the size, in fact and would make portability that much easier.
Q: Does that "Universal Power Supply" include all ten billion adapters to fit the various electrical outlets of the world?
A: No idea. The person I spoke with at Iomega told me that he thinks it includes several different adapters, but isn't positive. A: Well, it's the same thing as a Zip drive for Mac. Depending on your SCSI interface, it should be about the same speed.
If you want SCSI-2 or a bus-master card? Infoworld reports backing up MB in 57 minutes 6. A: Yes. In fact, Iomega ships the drive with floppies for both Macs and PCs, but there's a catch. As soon as you run the program to install the Zip Tools utilities that are included on the Zip Tools disk, the installer will erase the partition about MB of the system that you are NOT installing it for.
So if you run the install program from a Mac, it erases the DOS partition and vice versa. Iomega's official position is that you have to buy a second Zip Tools disk if you want to install on both platforms. Q: That sucks! A: Apparently the installer doesn't delete the other system's tools until you actually RUN the installer. The workaround is to run the Guest program to mount the disk, then use a disk duplication program that gets the whole disk, sector by sector to dupe the Zip Tools disk.
Some people have reported doing this successfully with the Disk Duplicator program that is on the Macintosh partition of the Zip Tools. Q: I already installed it for one platform, and now I can't install for the other. Q: Ok, I downloaded the files that I need. Now what? A: Those are self-extracting files, so for god's sake, be careful! EXE file in there and run it from that directory. EXE file there. Now run it from that directory. EXE and read how to install it.
What do I do? Q: How fast is it? A: According to the readme. Q: No, really, how fast is it in Real Life? It took about a minute to transfer a MB file from Zip disk to my hard drive. I had even zipped my whole window directory and subdirectories to my Zip disk, and it is only a bit slower than the speed I've got when I zipped the same thing to my hard drive remember that I was using EPP capacities and I only tested it without any benchmarking.
Other than that, it's a matter of personal preference. Iomega is denying everything except that they are indeed working on a "larger capacity drive" for future distribution. Okay; here ya go. These results were obtained using Norton Utilities 3.
Note that specific results will vary a bit from machine to machine due to CPU speed, system configuration, specific architecture, etc. More information that may be useful If you can find PC formatted Zip disks, snag 'em; they can be easily reformatted to work on the Mac. And vice-versa, if the need is there. I've tried it with PC Exchange included in System 7.
SyQuest will soon be releasing a new drive called the "EZ" formerly known by its code name, "Roadrunner". EZ weighs about lbs considerably more than the diet-conscious Zip , but is also about twice as fast. There are many mixed messages about which drive will ultimately prevail. However, I personally feel that the Zip drive will be the winner for several reasons.
Here's why:. EZ's cartridges will likely need to be stored in the same sort of padded carrying case as "standard" SyQuest cartridges. As a result, you'll see less of them being used with portable computers and, consequently, with desktop machines. Historically speaking, the Mac market hasn't had much in the way of brand-loyalty. SyQuest drives became the predominant standard not because of any outstanding features, but simply because they were cheap in comparison to the more expensive Bernoulli drives.
However, I can count literally hundreds of people who have abandoned their SyQuest drives for the Zip drive. This has the potential to give the Zip drive an even larger marketing lever. QuickTime movies, sound files, and similar time-intensive files play just fine from Zip.
I don't think so. Again, the fact that the Zip is so easily transportable makes it the better drive, regardless of the data storage capacity. If SyQuest's new drive were to hold, say, MB or more it would be a considerably different story. More than a few users have wondered out loud why SyQuest didn't introduce the EZ before Zip came on the scene.
The most logical answer is that SyQuest was making so much money off its other, lower-capacity drives that they didn't want to rock the boat by introducing the EZ In short, it seems that SyQuest was more interested in lining its own pockets instead of advancing the technology. While this is probably good for business, it doesn't make the users any happier. It's ultimately a simple matter of time deciding which drive will prevail, but if I had to place money on the outcome, I'd bet on Zip.
Apparently Iomega had some sort of deal going where you could trade on these dummy cartridges for real Zip cartridges. Truth or fiction, I have no idea. To the best of my knowledge, this rumor started when, in an interview regarding the Zip drive, an Iomega executive made a statement to the effect that "Zip technology is at its infancy" and that "it would be easy enough to make a Zip drive that can store twice the current amount or more.
Realistically speaking, this makes lots of financial sense for Iomega. Why cut their own throats? The "Viper" drive that is tentatively being developed may be the drive which this rumor sprouted from. All other trademarks, logos and brand names shown on this website other than stated are the sole property of their respective companies and are not owned by oemdrivers.
Information on the oemdrivers. Only install drivers if you are qualified to do so. Device Floppy Drives. Manufacturer Iomega. Series Iomega Zip Series. Unfortunately ZIP drives were prone to click-of-death failures. These failures their mechanism is described in FAQ could cause data and media loss.
IOMegaware is a big package containing nearly all drivers. There are also Win95 versions of Guest tool. Parallel port ZIP won't work with unidirectional ports. More about using ZIP drivers can be read in this site. Unfortunately IOMega can't go along with download links on their own website, they change it frequently and make dead links in support pages, especially for older platforms, so I have to waste my hosting bandwidth and put here essentials which allow to use ZIP with old computers.
There are some alternative drivers such as commercial PalmZip, which can work under DOS with very old computers
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