![]() ![]() ![]() As far as I understand, jaz drives can be write protected using the jaz tools software, but I don't have anything with that software running. Due to the clicking (is that click of death? is that even a jaz drive thing, as I thought that was a zip drive thing?!?) and the refusal to see the disk as writable means something is wrong with the drive. Among my many attempts, I even tried it without the disk inserted and it would recognize the drive. I tried other disks, I tried removing the CD driver (extension), thinking maybe it was interfering with the iomega driver. I know for a fact it is not write protected, as I had used the disk in my 2g external jaz drive successfully. When I tried to initialize it, it would mess about for a bit and then come back with the CD icon and tell me the disk was write protected. It did a lot of clicking, eventually it would say the disk needed initialized. My Mac SE/30 properly recognized the drive and its SCSI ID (6) and even recognized that there was a disk inserted! SCSIprobe didn't report any SCSI termination issues and my other SCSI devices were working fine (I had a zip drive connected on ID 5, and no, it was not terminating the chain, the terminator switch was off on the zip drive).īut that's where the good news stopped. Tested the one internal 1g jaz drive as an external setup with an ATX power supply and a ribbon-to-din adapter. At least my 2G jaz drive works! But there go my dreams of installing an internal jaz drive in both my PC and Mac SE/30!. The 2G jaz drive sounds fine - like an old hard drive. I'm going to try pulling it out and swapping it with the clicking one. One just spins and clicks - is that the click of death? The other takes the disk, spins it up, then just sits there - that's the one I have connected to the Win10 PC. ![]() I have two internal Jazz 1G drives, and I don't think either works properly. I backed the data up, then formatted the disks. It opened all of the disks and they even had data on them from the previous owner. Now that I've got a working SCSI card in the Win10 PC, it recognized the 2GB external jaz drive without any issue. I don't know why I didn't think of it, but I tried the same jaz disks in a known good working 2gb external drive. I think I might have a pair of bad drives. I use your System 7 image files all the time. Click to expand.I very much appreciate the info, RS! And even more, I _really_ appreciate your site! I've learned a lot of things from your pages. ![]()
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