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First post, by nhattu1986

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Hi

I just buy some zip drive in external enclosure,
upon power the enclosure, the zip drive led on the front stay solid green and there are no drive activity when i inserted the disk into the drive.
the eject button also does not work and i had to using the eject hole in the back of the drive.
the drive in question is the ATAPI 250MB zip drive.

When i look into the drive, it seems that the red led that the drive using to detect disk also stay on.

can I safely assume that the drive is toasted and it is part donor?
is there any remedy to save those drive?

Thanks

EDIT: The enclosure is Fujifilm finepix HA-770
I have another one that work perfectly fine with the same powersupply.

Reply 1 of 2, by wierd_w

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ZIP drives were notorious for having the read head come loose, and or, to eat themselves in other inventive ways, such as with over-travel misalignment (Click of death)

https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/a-f … drives.1231502/

It is reasonable to assume that your ZIP250 is "Unhealthy".

Reply 2 of 2, by nhattu1986

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wierd_w wrote on 2023-09-30, 08:51:

ZIP drives were notorious for having the read head come loose, and or, to eat themselves in other inventive ways, such as with over-travel misalignment (Click of death)

https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/a-f … drives.1231502/

It is reasonable to assume that your ZIP250 is "Unhealthy".

Hi, I open the drive and the head seems to be okey.
I think the problem may be related to the electronics on the drive, maybe the drive's CPU is fried
But it seems that i was very unlucky to have 3 unit that DoA.

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