Iomega Zip Disc Drive: Power Mac G3 (B&W) w/ Mac OS 9.2.2

I have a Power Macintosh G3 (B&W series) and the Iomega Zip Disc Drive (100MB) won't initialize my disc. It keeps coming up with a

Sorry...
(Cont.)...
window that says:
Disc Initialization Failed!
I've tried Apple's "Fix," but it still won't work!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
-The Saturn Man

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I have an iMac G3 (333 Mhz) with 256 RAM running Mac
OS 8.6. I had an Iomega Zip CD 650 and it worked
beautifully (highest burn rate was 4x but that was
fine). All of a sudden, it started giving me
hardware errors. I tried everything I could think
of, but it still did not work, so I think the drive
was just dead.
Anyway, for my operating system, there aren't really
any burners out there that I like, and all the new
ones are for USB 2.0, which is not supported by OS
8.6 (or maybe supported but running at a 1.1 speed).
I bought one on eBay (the same one I had before, or
so I thought). My last one was also bought on eBay.
So, using Toast Titanium 5.0.2, Toast won't recognize
the drive. It tells me there is no recordable drive
and to check the connections and the power. I've
tried that, tried the troubleshooting wizzard, tried
basically everything. I know the USB port works
(tested), and I know the drive gets power and somehow
the computer connects with it because when I reboot,
the drive light blinks. Just in case I also tried
using Toast 4.0 and 4.1.2, but I got the same
results, "no CD Recorder found, check power and
connections."
I checked the serial number to identify exactly what
kind of drive it is and to my surprise, it is
identified as "ZIP CD 650/IOMEGA CD-RW 4X4X6X USB 2.0
EXTERNAL DRIVE. So, first I was surprised because
it's a 2.0 and that one is not even identified in the
main product listing. Second, when I go into specs,
it says that the transfer rate is USB 1.1, but what
would be the point of making a USB 2.0 drive with a
USB 1.1 transfer rate?.
I keep getting a message saying "ISD ATAPI BRIDGE"
requires software not installed, but I have tried
deleting all Toas software, re-installing it, and it
still won't be recognized by my computer.
Any suggestions? Should I just cry, forget about it,
and hope to find a CD-RW Zip 650 that is listed as
USB 1.1 instead of 2.0? Should I just forget about
writing CD's until I've saved enough money to buy a
new iMac G5 with the Intel Dual Processors?
Thanks for your help
Ricardo
iMac G3 Mac OS
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