That it would good a idea to get one off ebay or if want some people are switching to Flash Modules.
As for why it a bad idea well becuase Zip disk medium composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium just like floppy disk and pron to get disk failurer over time and the parallel zip drive is dead slow if had IDE ver it may have work better but you still have same disk failurer problem to over time and some it can be rigth way that why it a very bad idea there good for storeage but that about it.
You really should think about Harddriver or may want think about Compact Flash IDE Adapter or SSD PATA or SSD IDE or IDE Flash Modules.
Just keep that mind if I recall everything rigth below
That work just fine but just keep in mind that Bios and disk size play key roll in making everthing work.
Depend on the OS and your Bios have there a hard disks as practically limited the maximum partition size.
MSDos 7.1 with FAT32 137GB Windows 95B to WinME
MSDos 7.0 with FAT16 32GB Windows 95
MSDos 6 FAT16 2GB
MSDos 5 FAT16 512MB
MSDos 4 FAT16 128MB
MSDos 3 FAT16 32MB
MSDos 2 FAT12 16MB
Depend on MSDos ver (which belive was ver 4 that allow up to 2GB) you have it allow for FDISK to partition hard disks up to 2 gigabytes (GB) in size. However, the MS-DOS file allocation table (FAT) file system can support only 2 GB per partition. Because of this fact, a hard disk between 2+ and 8 GB in size must be broken down into multiple partitions, each of which does not exceed 2 GB with a max of 8GB as in one Primary and one Extended partition with max of 3 Logical partitions if I call rigth.
It also depend on motherboard bios in some caes you have no option but use a drive overlay software if your computer's BIOS is too old to recognize hard drives over a certain size. Other option is get a lot newer EIDE, ATA or SCSI controller depend on Slot bus you need which can be ISA, VLB, PCI slot.