Akai S3000xl And Zip Problems. Options

[olivaffair]

Greetings, i have recently bought a Akai S3000XL and a Iomega 250mb parallel port zip drive. The problem occurs when i switch on the akai with the zip drive connected, akai says "waiting for hard disk ready..." and freezes, but if i boot from floppy, akai also freezes if i try to access the zip from the save pages.I have checked akai and zip manuals but to no avail so any help or advice would be well recieved. Cheers, Olivaffair.

[Synthetic]

well i can't be sure but the mention of "parallel port" sounds awfully suspicious... I have not seen anything with a parallel port for at least 5 years. I thought that type of termination had become extinct. Is parallel the only option for connecting the zip and Akai? Sometimes they provide SCSI too and if you have the option... use the SCSI ports.

Oh, here is another possibilty. When I had an EMU ESI2000... you had to install the emu system software on the ZIP for it to read it... otherwise it would freeze. The manual didn't say anything about that either an I learned it from another user. So, maybe you need to format and install system on zip for it work correctly. If all else fails, contact AKAI or search their site.