Sandisk Cruzer micro zip drive

I am having trouble with my Sandisk zip drive. I plug it into the usb drive of my macbook and nothing happens. The zip drive just flashes over and over but the computer does not seem to recognize the device. I just bought this macbook a couple weeks ago and am still getting used to it haha. Does anyone have an idea why the zip drive is not working? It says on the Sandisk website that the device is compatible with Macs. I also tried restarting the mac with the zip drive already plugged in and it did not work. Does it matter if the zip drive is already set up with xp or something? Is there a driver I'm suppost to download or something? Thanks for your help.
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Have you tried to update after to plug your device.
Click on the apple in the left up corner. And click on "software update..."

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