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Iomega zip100 plus : looking for pdf doc

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Hello everyone ,

Unobtainable documentation ; I’m looking for a scan of the doc of the Iomega zip100plus drive ( that unit was both scsi and parallel )

If you have that in a drawer that would be much appreciated as it doesn’t exist online atm

Thanks 🙏
 
I also found this one which contains a 40.7 MB file which could be related to the repair manual but perhaps the torrent is needed to get something directly usable.

archive.org

Iomega Z100S2 Repair Manual : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Iomega Z100S2 Zip Drive is an external zip drive with an SCSI interface, 100MB of hard drive storage, and a 1.2Mbps transfer rate. This removable disk...
archive.org

Edit: I figured it out - the 40MB file is a zip file - after adding .zip extension, it is repair info in xml format.
 
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Dunno--the Dozuki website claims that it can be done, but they're a little sketchy. Looks like omanual is a standard that was registered as IEEE 1874 and was utterly abandoned 10 years ago. Maybe the ifixit website may have some tools. See: https://www.ifixit.com/Search?query=iomega

Note that the Z100S2 is a SCSI-2 only drive. The op is looking for the manual for the Z100PLUS.
 
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From my reading, there are two D-sub 25 pin connectors on the rear. One, the female, is parallel port only. The other, male, is autodetect, but you appear to need the fancy autodetect cable to use that. Further, the drive must apparently be the only SCSI device on the SCSI bus.
No wonder it was so popular /s.
 
Well thanks to everyone trying to help
The idea of the cdrom is a good one, it may have useful info altough it would really be great to have the manual for the future generations

There is very little info on this device and the few old messages you see are sometimesy wrong.

First of this unit works with a simple straight DB25 cable, the auto detect cable seems to have nothing special apart from a ferrite bead.
It's also quite fast (I suppose as fast as the scsi unit)
There are people saying it's a heap of cr$p but it's not worse than my regular LPT zip100 in any way, let's say they are both crappy plastic units :)

However the exact behaviour of the auto detect thing is mysterious, it's unclear wether or not the unit is terminated (conflicting info, I would say it is actively terminated) and it seems such details are covered in the instructions. There are also conflicting info about the limitations, for what I can see it can for example co exist with other devices in a scsi chain (but who would do that for retro computing in 2024 seriously)

All in all, it's not so bad, it's even working great here, with a SlimSCSI adaptec 1460 pcmcia on a laptop I've got SCSI Zipdrive speeds on laptops. There seems to be a pcmcia card from iomega themselves, maybe it was a scsi card of some sort.
 
I have converted MANUAL.EXE and REFMAN.EXE into PDF for the fun of it, although it doesn't look like there is any hardware manual on that CD.
 

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  • Iomega - SCSI Driver Software v5.1 - Installation Manual (1996-09-06).pdf
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  • Iomega - ASPI Driver Software v5.4 - Installation Manual (1997-08-01).pdf
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Took quite a bit internet search foo. But I finally found the exact manual you were looking for in the waybackmachine.

The link you provided helped but it was difficult to find, so I uploaded it to the Internet Archive again independent of the defunct support site it was archived from. Hopefully that will make it easier to find in the future.
 

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  • en351002.pdf
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That is a great find thanks @macindan !

It also answers a couple of questions ; it indeed seems this has to be the only scsi device on the chain despite the thing clearly having an output port with a scsi logo on it - so they clearly changed their mind when going into production.
Seems the port can only be used for a printer , in parallel mode
 
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