I am trying to get a 250 zip drive work with my 3 year old iMac OSX 10.5.8. The zip drive has an Iomega FireWire adapter attached to the bak... when I attach to a firewire cable to the iMac... it just whirs and spits out the zip disc. I have all these old zips and want to see what's on them!
It's actually all 3. I took off the adapter and tried the USB port... but that doesn't transmit the power... so I hooked up the power adapter and it still did the same thing... keeps running and spits out the cartridge.
The funny thing is, the first time I tried it, it was quiet for a few moments and then acted up and spit it out.
I tried a few.... besides the drive starts running loud before I even put the cartridge in... maybe it's no good.... as I recall they were always a pain to use years ago.... finnicky