I have this device as 'back-up' for an old B&W G3 which came with an internal Zip drive… so in before of "dude, a zip drive?, are you nuts? it's gonna die sooner than later" well, for sure, albeit I have had more dead hard disks then Zip drives, seriously, but that's no the issue here, I can move all that to a cd-rom and presto…
Anyway, the device is incrediblely SLOW, it didn't come with a power supply so I guess the FireWire port does such work… I am not asking for 'hard drive-esque' speed, but this is slower than hum… a damn slow USB imation superdisk I also have here… to read floppies none the less.
A serach gave me a topic from 2001 which I am not going to bump, you can read it here if you will…
http://forums.macnn.com/57/consumer-...rchos-firezip/
So while it is going to be kind of a futile question… is there anybody using this device under 10.4 or 10.5 with 'good enough' transfer speeds?, all I was able to find on internet was a Q-A from archos dev site which reads:
Q: Does my FireZip 250 works with MAC?
A: Yes, if you have MAC OS X operating system then you do not need any drivers and native drivers will make FireZip 250 to mount on the desktop
geez… it's Mac not MAC !!
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