However, one of the drives they should keep is the VL-Series, the low-end drive I recently purchased. Iomega probably needs to reduce the number of drives to just three or four they’re beginning to look like Apple did in the Performa days, when there were more models of Macs than types of Value Meals at McDonald’s.
There are small differences between the different models: the Zip 100 USB-powered drive has a sports-car-like enclosure, while the Zip 100 USB drive (it’s their naming convention, not mine) has a slimmer, flat enclosure. There are now, what, seven or eight different Zip drives, from the VL-Series reviewed here to the Zip 250 FireWire drive – and that’s not counting drives made for internal installation. "I used the live online support on the Iomega site (which was pretty cool, by the way), and one of the support staff basically said that native Zip drivers for Jaguar had not been completed.2001 – Iomega has produced a new entry in its collection of Zip drives. New Drivers Needed Timothy Fields reports a conversation with an Iomega technical support representative, who blamed the lack of "native Jaguar drivers" for the slow transfer speeds. Format as DOS again, and the speed drops back." Reformatting to HFS took transfers up to a respectable 800KB/sec. Using DOS format I saw transfer speeds of around 130KB/sec.
#IOMEGA USB ZIP 100 DRIVERS FOR MAC OS X MAC OS X#
I tested this recently with Mac OS X 10.2.1 and a 256MB USB flash memory drive. Doesn't matter whether it's a Zip disk, USB flash memory device, whatever. "Any storage device formatted as a DOS disk (FAT16/32) will perform terribly on Mac OS X.
#IOMEGA USB ZIP 100 DRIVERS FOR MAC OS X PC#
Terry Brady says the PC formatting problem affects media other than Zip disks: "I haven't tested it fully, but the problem seems to be with PC formatted ZIP disks, and possible Mac OS Standard (not extended) formatted - in PC format it takes forever to copy anything to and from a 100Mb ZIP disk - reformatting it cures the problem, but a pain if you need the data on the disk" PC Formatting Adrian Fry reports that the problem only affects PC formatted and Mac OS Standard formatted Zip disks, with Mac OS Extended formatted disks, no slow-down is apparent:
For some reason, this results in very slow copy speeds." In my case, the explanation is trying to use 100MB zip disks in the 250MB drive. "I've observed the same problem on my G4/733. We have received a number of corroborating reports, suggesting that Iomega Zip drives experience very slow transfer rates under a variety of systems running Mac OS X 10.2.x.ġ00 MB Disks Joe Ligotti reports slow transfer speeds using 100 MB Zip disks in a 250 MB drive, an issue confirmed by Iomega:
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