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problem with parallel zip drive!

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outoftheblue

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I have a Iomega zip drive (100mb) parallel version... I lent it to a friend and now its fried somehow.

When you plug the thing in, both the green and amber lights remain lit, and the eject button does not respond (yes, theres also a disk stuck in there).

Any ideas? This thing is just over a year old, I don't want to trash it!! 🙁
 
Isn't there an eject button that you need to push on the back end? Try to get the disk out first, and then see if both lights still turn on.
 
The lights stayed on in the first place, I fed it a disk to see if it would help but it didn't. I'm not sure if theres a manual eject on the rear, i'll have to see.

Its still at my friend's house, i'll have to retrieve it and play with it some more.. then i can post more info!
 
I've never heard of lights staying on when there isn't a disk in the drive. I have seen the drive blink the amber light when no disk was in. Had you drive been making the "Dreaded Click-O'-Death"?
 
I read about the click-o-death, and I didn't hear any clicks! I last used it a few months back, and it was OK. I dug it out without testing it (duh, I assume it works since I hadn't touched it), and gave it to my friend... he said he didn't do anything to it in transit and I trust him, so I don't know why it failed so suddenly...

Zip drives are pretty durable things :0) My SCSI internal is chugging away, and I'd really like my parallel to work again so I can transfer between systems, esp ones that dont have a CD-ROM or ones that can't read CD-RW.

More info tmr! Thx!
 
The drive is here back home, there is a small hole at the back for manual eject, I stuck a paper clip in and retrieved the disk.

Did NEC buy out Iomega???!!!! I just went to iomega.com and it directed me to NEC.... and NEC's site I havent had good experiences with!

Both lights are still illuminated... do I have any hope? I'm gonna try a Google search now...
 
I didn't get a redirect to NEC. Try Iomega's site again. There is a tech support page that directly addresses your situation. Hopefully it'll fix your problem.

What did your friend do to your zip, anyway?
 
Something is screwed.... go to http://www.iomega.com and it sends you to NEC. Go to http://iomega.com and you get Iomega.

Odd... guess the webmaster screwed something up 🙂 I'll check the real Iomega site now.

I don't know what he did to the zip, but in the past few months a 52" projection TV, IDE CD-ROM, 3gb HD, and this zip have died in his house... and the computer devices are all hooked up to a APC surge protector as well as a APC UPS... weird! Anti-technology ghosts in his house I guess 😉
 
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