I finally found a stash of zip disks my wife stored stuff on back in the day. I also have a firewire zip drive, which I believe I previously used to read some other zip disks years ago. However, I can't seem to find my FW400 > FW800 adapter to plug the thing into my "oldest" Macs (a 2012 mini, a 2012 Mac Pro). So i took it out of the case and hooked it up to both machines via a USB>ATA adapter (the drive in the case is just ATA). It is recognized in both machines, but neither machine recognizes the disk contents. I'm running Big Sur on one of the Pro so I don't expect it to be able to read HFS/HFS+, but I believe Mojave (on the mini) should be able to? I am unsure if it's the USB>ATA adapter, or the drive, or the discs I also tried hfsutils on linux, that didn't work either.
Does someone have a working mac + zip drive, or just zip drive w/FW800 cable, that I could borrow (rent?) for a few hours to try and copy the data off these disks? Or suggestions about what I might be missing here. Very possible there's something wrong with the drive.
Thanks for any pointers!
BSide - SF Bay Area
Does someone have a working mac + zip drive, or just zip drive w/FW800 cable, that I could borrow (rent?) for a few hours to try and copy the data off these disks? Or suggestions about what I might be missing here. Very possible there's something wrong with the drive.
Thanks for any pointers!
BSide - SF Bay Area