zip drive in a laptop?

[jhassi]

The ZIP drive I'm using now is parallel port, extremely slow since the laptop is set to SPP and the BIOS doesn't offer EPP/ECP.

<< My question is what kind of zip drive will fit into a IBM 600 laptop? >>

Are all laptop ZIP drives the same? It does have a hot-swappable CD-ROM and floppy drive, so I'm sure I could get a ZIP drive for it, it's just I don't want to spend hundreds on a real IBM compatible ZIP drive when I don't even own the laptop, it's from work.

 

[Zach]

&quot;Zip&quot; drives would ahve to be the same, since they are actually proprietary and made by Iomega. I haven't looked into it for a year or so, but last I knew Iomega was outsourcing Zip making to NEC, who (I think) made a laptop version... for the drive bays that hold CDROM's and the like...

I did a search on pricewatch to see if I was at al right, and I foudn this: &quot;Internal Zip Drive for OmniBook Models 2100,3000,3100 - 100mb - Drive Only - in Plain Box&quot;. So look into it for your laptop.

You could also look into a USB Zip, more flexable later on.. I'd got hat route.