{"id":544,"date":"1999-06-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-06-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=544"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"zip-drive-compatibility","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/zip-drive-compatibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Zip drive compatibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

More Zip mania. “Your recent article on Zip disk compatibility prompts the following question. If I record standard MIDI files produced on a Roland G1000 on to the internal SCSI 100mb Zip drive disks and want to play the recorded MIDI files back using a parallel ZIP drive internal to a PC, and I am using the G1000 as a sound source, what sort of data compatibility problems might potentially occur if any?”Boy that’s a mouthful. 10 points for longest coherent sentence I’ve seen in a while. It’s important at this point to make a distinction between media and what connects the media. Data written to a Zip disk will be virtually the same regardless of whether the disk was in a SCSI or parallel Zip drive. The type of connection doesn’t matter. However, what it was connected to does. Your G1000 files should be able to be read just fine by your PC and vice versa. The different Zip drives are completely compatible. The same principle also applies to CDR drives, which come in a few different connection types, as well as DVD. Many drives are starting to have Firewire connections, which again should not affect the compatibility of the data on them. The critical data is the same regardless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[34438,34799],"storecat":[],"itemids":[],"manufacturers":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n