I was able to use diskutil list in the Terminal app to see the drive but not able to mount it and I tried erasing the Apple volume using Terminal as well but I am not sure that worked.
![]() Zip Drives Mac OS X 10My question: Is there an available driver for this device that will allow me readwrite to the disks under Mac OS X 10.x As an alternative, how might I go about erasing the many Zip disks I have so I can sell off or give the the whole shebang to a suitable retro Mac user. Power down -- all the way off (leave ZIP drive connected). Have a ZIP disk halfway inserted into the drive 3a. Now -- power on, and IMMEDIATELY (or as quickly as possible) 3b. Push ZIP disk all the way in, and then. Hold down the option key on the keyboard (keep holding it until the startup manager appears) 4. Click on it with the mouse pointer and hit return. The Mac should boot. When you get to the finder, do you see the ZIP disk on the desktop WHY I asked that you do this: Every Mac-formatted ZIP disk has a copy of the on-disk driver on it. When you boot with the option key held down, this instructs the Mac to scan all connected drives to look for bootable copies of the OS. Even though the ZIP disk doesnt have a copy of the OS on it, the Mac should scan the USB bus, and load the on-disk driver. Once loaded, the driver should remain loaded until the Mac is shut down or restarted. Aside: Back in the days of the Classic Mac OS, there was a utility called SCSI Probe that would scan the bus while running, and load drivers and drives where found. When you get to the finder, do you see the ZIP disk on the desktop Does this work It -used to work- some years back. Clearly the Mac was reading (or trying to read) info from the disk because I could hear the drive spinning it and the indicator was flashing but an image does not mount and as I said before Disk Utility hangs when the drive is connected. The fact that the app Data Rescue 4 was able to recover files suggests to me that there should be a way to mount the volume. I would like to find a home for the drive and the many Zip disks I have at the very least but I at least need a way to erase them before giving them up. I believe Drive Genius comes with a 30-day free trial, so it would cost nothing to try it and find out. You might try either Drive Genius or TechTool Pro -- maybe one or both could see the disk in the drive, and I know that Drive Genius offers the option to shred data (secure erase).
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