Iomega Ditto installation

[Jon Lawrance]

I want to install my Iomega Ditto 2mb tape drive on a PC, but I can't find the special Y cable they supply you with.

I only want to get a couple of bits of information of my backups and thats it. If possible, I don't want to buy extra cables as my local supplier doesn't do them anyway.

Can I use the floppy drive cable and temporarily disable the floppy drive? It seems to fit but would it work?

Normally it is supposed to come off the CD-Rom cable where it takes a wide plug and converts it to a narrower one with less pin slots, if you see what I mean.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Jon

[Axel]

Those people who still do tape back-ups either have never tried to rebuild from tape, or don't have enough money to buy a few spare hard drives and a PROMISE ide raid card for RAID1 mirroring......

better yet would be a SCSI card with 3 hard drives and RAID5 configured

sell the ditto on EBAY and buy a $200 CD burner to back up the critical stuff - the disks are less than $1 ea. if you buy in bulk. They hold 650MB perminantly regardless of what your kid does with a refrigerator magnet...... Tapes deteriorate and catch in the drives and are a royal pain to restore from much less search from....

Also - most tape back-up software also backs up the application software - you'd have to reinstall that anyway if your system died - it also records the operating system which you'd have to reinstall from scratch if your system died..... you only want data files - like *.doc and *.xls - and your saved game sessions - all the other stuff you don't need......

I have a zip drive in a beautiful water tight case I made myself - I bought it because e-mailing 60 MB spreadsheets home to work on them was painful in 1996 - I burn disks of things I always want to keep - that and I p*ss*!@#!! off the mail administrator by keeping 85MB of stuff on the mail server at work.....

[Jon Lawrance]

I've already done as you suggested. I now have a Plextor burn-proof CD writer.

But that's not going to help me get my data off my ditto tape!

Jon

[bdunn]

I have an extra Y cable if you pay shipping its yours.