Iomega Zip Drive 100 ide not detected

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My father has an Iomega Zip Drive 100 IDE that was manufactured on 2001. It's been installed since 2009 on a GA-790XTA-UD4P and it isn't detected by bios. I can't remember if it was working after the upgrade from Sempron to Phenom II back on 2009, I can't recall.

Today I noticed it, that the green button led stays switched on always and the drive isn't recognized at all.

No jumper attached. And I want to ask if the jumper is needed for such an old drive connected alone to the IDE slot.

 

[cornemuse]

16 years is pretty old for one of those things, They're built like floppy drives, dust etc can get in 'em. Were pretty neat when new. I still have 6 or so, still sealed 'Sony' brand 100m sized disks & a few internal drives & one usb drive, , ,

(just found another ½ dozen 'new' Maxell Z -100's)

 

[Derek12]

Did you try another IDE cable

 

[Black Flag]

I've tried with a jumper with no luck.

So, I must use another cable? The cable is the following : http://icrontic.com/draco/images/articles/gigabyte_gak8n_ultra_sli_motherboard/eide_cable.jpg

 

[Black Flag]

It's dead, I changed the IDE cables and also tested it with the external IDE to usb case adapter and it doesn't works.
My father told me that it's been 4 years since last time used it.
So, the drive was working for 12 years. It was a backup device for company management software.