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| Thread ID: 26363 | 2002-10-25 08:24:00 | Zip drive thinks it's a Floppy | Heather P (163) | Press F1 |
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| 92968 | 2002-10-26 07:33:00 | It's too long since I used it - and I haven't any benchmarks to work with - so I would have no idea if it's running slower. Am currently running Trouble In Paradise to check that checking my disks didn't damage the drive. I think I'm OK but will feel safer when it's done. The disk check at the moment is for my known good one (bought since the drive failed). If that's OK then it'll be time to check the 3 faintly suspect ones (the dead one has been binned). It still thinks it's a B: and will probably remain so. Unfortunately don't have a spare bay to dump a second floppy in to annoy it. |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 92969 | 2002-10-26 07:40:00 | Duckyduck, Last time I bought one - around $NZ25 I think. To get into the BIOS varies on computer brand. Mine is press DEL on startup. Once in though the BIOS settings again vary. I've got: IDE Secondary Slave PIO on Auto (other options were Mode 0 through 4) Secondary Slave UltraDMA disabled (enabled before and there is no difference) B: is set to None. Couldn't see any other variables that looked likely. Guess it wants to be a B: |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 92970 | 2002-10-26 09:39:00 | Heather, yep, you are right in that each computer/bios can be different but here is ours in case it is of any help. Standard Cmos pri master - user pri slave - cdrom sec master - cdrom sec slave - floptical floppy a - 1.44 floppy b - none Advanced Cmos quick boot enabled 1st boot - floppy 2nd boot - ide.0 3rd boot - ide.1 The only time our zip drive plays up is if we accidentally leave a disk in the drive when rebooting and it changes all the drive letters except A and C to a mixed muddle and results in a second reboot to cure it. $25.......thats a improvement, last time I saw they were $29 and in some stores creeping over the $30. Here, you need to shop around but they average about $18NZ/one but I tend to get them by the box of ten and from the same store and they average $12-$15NZ per disk if buying a box or more depending on what discount they choose to give. |
duckyduck (197) | ||
| 92971 | 2002-10-26 09:55:00 | Hi, I'll have to reset to check it out but from memory mine is completely different. Just checked a local computer store on-line. $25.88 each or $241.88 for 10 (incl GST). I loaded Iomegaware off the iomega website. A default feature is the disk ejects on exit from Windows. Power failures could still cause the problem you describe - although when it's determined to hang on to B: at all costs it wouldn't matter if the disk is in or out! |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 92972 | 2002-10-26 09:57:00 | $24 from Dick Smith | Heather P (163) | ||
| 92973 | 2002-10-27 03:09:00 | Dunno whether this will work in 98 but in 95 I went to Device Manager | CD Rom | settings |Reserve letter and set both Start Drive and End Drive to H so that it did'nt reset itself to G when I removed a Zip drive. Can you force the the Zip to use whatever letter you previously used by a similar setting. I was investigating moving the Zip to another computer and did'nt want to reset all the CD rom drive settings. | FrankS (257) | ||
| 92974 | 2002-10-27 03:19:00 | Frank, I tried that - it's greyed out in Device Manager. I've now given up on it and moved onto other things. At least I can now read the data that's on it and use a disk to work on a file on 2 computers. This was the original goal. It would have been nice though to completely cross it off the list as totally acheived. |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 92975 | 2002-10-27 05:59:00 | For info my Reserve letter is also greyed out but the Start and End Drive are in white. I have just clicked on the Start and it has offered any letter from G to O. Have put G in start and end drives. Somewhere there is a setting for range of drives that can be used. | FrankS (257) | ||
| 92976 | 2002-10-27 09:16:00 | I double-checked. Start and End are also greyed out. It cannot be changed. | Heather P (163) | ||
| 92977 | 2002-10-27 22:54:00 | Just dusted off some of my old paperwork for Zip Retrieving old discs have you looked at links on www.spinrite.com Drive letters. Have parts of old manual that gives info on changing drive letters, info on MSCDEX, alterations to AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS Same manual advises DOS treats removeable media drives more like floppy drives and Iomega SCSI utility SCSIUTIL.EXE is used to get round this problem. User Reference Manual REFMAN.EXE installed with Iomega SCSI software gives additional info. Uninstalling, did this about 6 years ago and you had to manually uninstall ? 3 files or things went adrift. The files were listed on a Iomega support doc which I have no record. The following docs may or may not be of help www.iomega.com ditto, 10864, 10123, 10250, 10147 |
FrankS (257) | ||
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