Re: Zip Drive Woes

Fred Nielson (fnielson@cris.com)
Sat, 3 Aug 1996 02:05:16 EDT

>We had a zip disk lock up in a drive in our lab. The computer doesn't
>seem to want to read the disk. We tried it on a couple of different
>computers and it seems that the drive itself will not recognize the disk.
>The disk worked fine earlier, in another zip.
>How can we get the disk out of the zip?

Quoted from the Zip drive manual: "The Zip drive must be powered on for
normal disk insertion and removal. If you need to eject a disk during a
power failure, disconnect the power supply from the Zip drive and push a
straightened paper clip into the emergency disk eject hole on the back of
the drive."

An illustration indicates the hole is in the upper right section of the back
of the Zip drive above the SCSI connector (for connecting other SCSI drives)
or above the printer port on the printer port model. If the above doesn't
work, the disk is probably physically stuck in the drive and you may want to
have a service technician look at it to avoid damage to the drive.

Fred Nielson
Systems Support Specialist
Florida Southern College
fnielson@concentric.net