Can't get Zip100 to work w/ Win XP

[Hackworth]

I have ATAPI Zip100 drives installed in my machine and in my son's machine.
I have a Pentium 4 w/ i845D chipset mobo, and my son has an Athlon XP w/
KT400A chipset mobo. Both are now running Windows XP. Neither machine wants
to work with the Zip 100 drives anymore, although they both worked perfectly
before w/ older versions of Windows. When I put a disk into the drive, the
green LED illuminates, and then the drive remains inaccessible and requires
a **cold** boot to remove the disk! The problem occurs with or without
Iomegaware installed (the latest version from their site).

Any ideas as to what I may be doing wrong? I've used Zip drives for years,
and no other changes were made to either machine's BIOS or hardware. The
only change is that Win XP was installed (on a freshly formatted hard disk).

[D***@ix.netcom.com]

Post by Hackworth
I have ATAPI Zip100 drives installed in my machine and in my son's machine.
I have a Pentium 4 w/ i845D chipset mobo, and my son has an Athlon XP w/
KT400A chipset mobo. Both are now running Windows XP. Neither machine wants
to work with the Zip 100 drives anymore, although they both worked perfectly
before w/ older versions of Windows. When I put a disk into the drive, the
green LED illuminates, and then the drive remains inaccessible and requires
a **cold** boot to remove the disk! The problem occurs with or without
Iomegaware installed (the latest version from their site).
Any ideas as to what I may be doing wrong? I've used Zip drives for years,
and no other changes were made to either machine's BIOS or hardware. The
only change is that Win XP was installed (on a freshly formatted hard disk).

I don't know what might cause that, but I have an ATAPI Zip 100 which
continued to work just fine after installing Win XP. Are you using
service pack 2 for XP? I've read about that causing all sorts of
problems, but I don't remember reading about any problems specific to
Zip drives.

You might try looking through the configuration tips at my (old)
website. I suppose there could be an issue with BIOS settings or with
another drive sharing the IDE port with the Zip.

[Hackworth]

Post by D***@ix.netcom.com

Post by Hackworth
I have ATAPI Zip100 drives installed in my machine and in my son's machine.
I have a Pentium 4 w/ i845D chipset mobo, and my son has an Athlon XP w/
KT400A chipset mobo. Both are now running Windows XP. Neither machine wants
to work with the Zip 100 drives anymore, although they both worked perfectly
before w/ older versions of Windows. When I put a disk into the drive, the
green LED illuminates, and then the drive remains inaccessible and requires
a **cold** boot to remove the disk! The problem occurs with or without
Iomegaware installed (the latest version from their site).
Any ideas as to what I may be doing wrong? I've used Zip drives for years,
and no other changes were made to either machine's BIOS or hardware. The
only change is that Win XP was installed (on a freshly formatted hard disk).

I don't know what might cause that, but I have an ATAPI Zip 100 which
continued to work just fine after installing Win XP. Are you using
service pack 2 for XP? I've read about that causing all sorts of
problems, but I don't remember reading about any problems specific to
Zip drives.

Yes, I am indeed using SP2 on both systems. I haven't noticed any other
weirdness (so far), just this Zip drive issue.

Post by D***@ix.netcom.com
You might try looking through the configuration tips at my (old)
website. I suppose there could be an issue with BIOS settings or with
another drive sharing the IDE port with the Zip.

OK, I'll check your old site again. (I've been there in years past!) I have
the BIOS set to NONE for the Zip. BTW, both of the drives in question are
slave devices... one of an optical drive and the other of the hard disk.

Post by D***@ix.netcom.com
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[Rob S]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:54:37 -0500, "Hackworth" <***@spamless.net> wrote:

-Any ideas as to what I may be doing wrong? I've used Zip drives for years,
-and no other changes were made to either machine's BIOS or hardware. The
-only change is that Win XP was installed (on a freshly formatted hard disk).
-
Can't offer a fix, other than to confirm that, like DeepOne, Zips work fine on
XP. I've installed dozens - on XP, SP1 and SP2, and all work "out of the box".

The only gotcha there is that I'm talking about 250Mb drives not 100s. May be
worth getting yourself a 250 (ebay?) which will read and write your 100 disks
fine, albeit a little slowly.

rgds


-Rob
robatwork at mail dot com

[geothermal]

Post by Hackworth
I have ATAPI Zip100 drives installed in my machine and in my son's machine.
I have a Pentium 4 w/ i845D chipset mobo, and my son has an Athlon XP w/
KT400A chipset mobo. Both are now running Windows XP. Neither machine wants
to work with the Zip 100 drives anymore, although they both worked perfectly
before w/ older versions of Windows. When I put a disk into the drive, the
green LED illuminates, and then the drive remains inaccessible and requires
a **cold** boot to remove the disk! The problem occurs with or without
Iomegaware installed (the latest version from their site).
Any ideas as to what I may be doing wrong? I've used Zip drives for years,
and no other changes were made to either machine's BIOS or hardware. The
only change is that Win XP was installed (on a freshly formatted hard disk).

Hi,

Is your zip mentioned in device manager ?

My Zip 100 ATAPI is located under the "disk drives"
section of device manager. It is listed as
"IOMEGA ZIP 100".

When I click on properties I see this...under the general tab....

Device Type : Disk drives
Manufacturer : (Standard disk drives)
Location : Location 0 (0)

Under the driver tab I see this...

Driver Provider: Microsoft
Driver Date : 7/1/2001
Driver version : 5.1.2535.0
Driver Signer: Microsoft Windows Publisher

When I click on driver details I see two files listed....

disk.sys
PartMgr.sys

Both of these files are in windows/system32/drivers folder.

take care,

geothermal