Hi folks,

I'm new here. Thanks for listening. I have a few macs and I have recently
acquired a
couple of ZIP drives, about which I know almost nothing, I'm afraid. I'm
interested in
seeing if I can get the ZIP going on any/all of my older macs, to transfer
files. Please
excuse my ignorance here, any help appreciated!

Here's what I've got: Performa 6200CD (is that considered a classic these
days?), a
Quadra 900, and an old (great!) SE30.

ZIPS-- they're both different. Honestly, I don't know if they're Mac/PC, or if
it matters.
I'm afraid the best I can do is describe them. The front of each looks the same:
"Iomega zip 100" but the backs are different. They each have two ports on back,
and
all 4 ports are of the flat 25 pin variety. However, one has a _male_ port,
labelled "Zip"
and a _female_ one with an icon of a printer, and the other has two female
ports, one
labelled "Zip" and the other with the diamond-looking SCSI icon. The one with
the
SCSI icon also has switches to control termination and SCSI ID #.

The embarassing thing is, I can't remember how these are hooked up... I think I
remember them being SCSI devices, presumably going from the mac's SCSI port to
the
SCSI port on my second Zip drive. However, I tried that, and every time I plug
the
cable into the mac, the mac totally dies. I've tried a few troubleshooting
things, and
no good-- starting up with the thing already plugged in doesn't work (it doesn't
start
up) and for what it's worth, it works fine with the cable attached to only the
mac-- but
as soon as I plug that other end to the zip, it dies again. I seem to remember
that one
had to download a driver, from Iomega, to get these to work, but I even though I
don't
currently have it, I was surprised that it was totally dying.

I'll have to search through my old cables, but at present I've only been able to
find a
male-to-female SCSI cable, so I've only been able to hook up the one with the
male
"Zip" port. I can't remember for sure, but I think that the person who gave this
one to
me said it was for PC. Anyway, rather than troubleshooting till the cows come
home, I
thought I would toss all this info your way, and see if there's anyone who can
help me.

Thanks!

JD