Iomega Z100iDE ZIP - Revision history

Malvineous: Not 250MB compatible after all

2016-04-08T23:40:07Z

Not 250MB compatible after all

Malvineous: Add series heading and zip drive list

2016-03-25T12:06:39Z

Add series heading and zip drive list

Malvineous: Add drive

2016-03-25T11:57:03Z

Add drive

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{{Device Infobox/Begin
| Bus type = IDE
| Bus version = PIO-4 
| Manufacturer = Iomega
| Compatible with = [[Has compatibility::ZIP100]], [[Has compatibility::ZIP250]]
| Connectors = None 
| Requires -5VDC = No
| Requires -12VDC = No
| Config = [[Config method::Jumpers]]
}}
{{Device Infobox/Floppy Drive
| Media type = Zip disk
| Sides = 2
| Tracks =
}}
{{Device Infobox/End
| Driver = N/A
}}

The '''Iomega Z100iDE ZIP''' is a native IDE (non-ATAPI) ZIP drive. It appears to the host machine as a hard drive, and does not require any drivers to run.

While not having to load any drivers may seem like a good idea, if the BIOS does not fully support removable IDE drives (e.g. some 486 PCs) then the machine may have to be rebooted after changing disks in order to see the contents of the new disk. Formatting disks may also have no effect.

Native IDE (non-ATAPI) Zip drives also cannot be booted as drive A: without BIOS support, and must be configured correctly otherwise they will appear to the system as drive C:.

It seems that these drawbacks were behind the reason for switching to the ATAPI protocol, so that the drives would be handled more like IDE CD-ROM drives, which have supported removable media since they were first introduced.

The native IDE versions of the drives seem to be most commonly associated with Dell computers, which presumably had the necessary BIOS support for these to work correctly as removable media devices.

== Additional photos ==

<gallery mode="packed">
Image:Iomega Z100iDE overhead.jpg|Overhead
Image:Iomega Z100iDE rear.jpg|Rear panel
</gallery>

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	Image:Iomega Z100iDE rear.jpg\|Rear panel		Image:Iomega Z100iDE rear.jpg\|Rear panel
	</gallery>		</gallery>
		+
		+	== Series ==
		+
		+	There are other devices in this series from the same manufacturer.
		+
		+	{{#ask:
		+	[[Category:Floppy drives]]
		+	[[Manufacturer::Iomega]]
		+	[[Has media type::Zip disk]]
		+	\| ?Bus type
		+	\| ?Bus version
		+	\| mainlabel = Device
		+	}}

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   | Bus version = PIO-4 <!-- Might be UDMA? -->
   | Manufacturer = Iomega
-  | Compatible with = [[Has compatibility::ZIP100]], [[Has compatibility::ZIP250]]
+  | Compatible with = [[Has compatibility::ZIP100]]
   | Connectors = None <!-- Not counting power or the interface connector above, nor jumpers or test points -->
   | Requires -5VDC = No