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Polish Prince (Szynka)
2005-10-19 00:09:23 UTC
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I bought a new computer, so I downloaded the latest driver from Iomega
for my Zip100 PP. The computer recognizes the zip drive and
assigned it a drive letter.

The problem is, when I place a formatted disk in the drive, the
disk is not recognized "Please insert disk into drive J".

I run XP with SP2.

Thanks,

Larry


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Rick
2005-10-19 18:47:43 UTC
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Post by Polish Prince (Szynka)
I bought a new computer, so I downloaded the latest driver from Iomega
for my Zip100 PP. The computer recognizes the zip drive and
assigned it a drive letter.
The problem is, when I place a formatted disk in the drive, the
disk is not recognized "Please insert disk into drive J".
I run XP with SP2.
Thanks,
Larry
See the thread on 10/05/2005 "No Icon for Zip100 in My Computer."
Relative to XP, a parallel port Zip is an ancient device and apparently
doesn't work under XP, despite whatever Iomega may claim otherwise.

Rick
Polish Prince (Szynka)
2005-10-19 23:51:01 UTC
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Is there a remedy Rick ?
I do not have an icon displayed either.

Larry
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Post by Polish Prince (Szynka)
I bought a new computer, so I downloaded the latest driver from Iomega
for my Zip100 PP. The computer recognizes the zip drive and
assigned it a drive letter.
The problem is, when I place a formatted disk in the drive, the
disk is not recognized "Please insert disk into drive J".
I run XP with SP2.
Thanks,
Larry
See the thread on 10/05/2005 "No Icon for Zip100 in My Computer."
Relative to XP, a parallel port Zip is an ancient device and apparently
doesn't work under XP, despite whatever Iomega may claim otherwise.
Rick
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2005-10-20 05:01:08 UTC
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Post by Polish Prince (Szynka)
Is there a remedy Rick ?
I do not have an icon displayed either.
Larry
Not from what has been reported here. Iomega says the driver works,
people who try it with a parallel drive say it doesn't. With a parallel
drive, support for the device actually working pretty much stops with
Win 9x/Me. Win2000 & XP don't provide enough support for "legacy"
hardware like this.

Best you can do is locate a Zip 100 internal with an ATAPI interface. Or
possibly a 100 USB drive. A 250 drive can write to 100 disks, but 2 to 3
times slower because it has to overwrite the tracks on a 100 disk
several times to fill out the entire track with. A 750 drive cannot
write to 100 disks at all.

Of course, if anyone out there has actually gotten a 100 parallel drive
to work under XP or 2000 just jump right in...

Rick
Post by Polish Prince (Szynka)
Post by Rick
Post by Polish Prince (Szynka)
I bought a new computer, so I downloaded the latest driver from Iomega
for my Zip100 PP. The computer recognizes the zip drive and
assigned it a drive letter.
The problem is, when I place a formatted disk in the drive, the
disk is not recognized "Please insert disk into drive J".
I run XP with SP2.
Thanks,
Larry
See the thread on 10/05/2005 "No Icon for Zip100 in My Computer."
Relative to XP, a parallel port Zip is an ancient device and apparently
doesn't work under XP, despite whatever Iomega may claim otherwise.
Rick
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Polish Prince (Szynka)
2005-10-20 05:07:30 UTC
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That's the goofy thing Rick, my brother has a Zip100 on his XP computer.
It works but he does not have SP 2 installed.
Thanks much.

Larry
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Post by Polish Prince (Szynka)
Is there a remedy Rick ?
I do not have an icon displayed either.
Larry
Not from what has been reported here. Iomega says the driver works,
people who try it with a parallel drive say it doesn't. With a parallel
drive, support for the device actually working pretty much stops with
Win 9x/Me. Win2000 & XP don't provide enough support for "legacy"
hardware like this.
Best you can do is locate a Zip 100 internal with an ATAPI interface. Or
possibly a 100 USB drive. A 250 drive can write to 100 disks, but 2 to 3
times slower because it has to overwrite the tracks on a 100 disk
several times to fill out the entire track with. A 750 drive cannot
write to 100 disks at all.
Of course, if anyone out there has actually gotten a 100 parallel drive
to work under XP or 2000 just jump right in...
Rick
Post by Polish Prince (Szynka)
Post by Rick
Post by Polish Prince (Szynka)
I bought a new computer, so I downloaded the latest driver from Iomega
for my Zip100 PP. The computer recognizes the zip drive and
assigned it a drive letter.
The problem is, when I place a formatted disk in the drive, the
disk is not recognized "Please insert disk into drive J".
I run XP with SP2.
Thanks,
Larry
See the thread on 10/05/2005 "No Icon for Zip100 in My Computer."
Relative to XP, a parallel port Zip is an ancient device and apparently
doesn't work under XP, despite whatever Iomega may claim otherwise.
Rick
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GHalleck
2005-10-20 08:05:44 UTC
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Post by Polish Prince (Szynka)
That's the goofy thing Rick, my brother has a Zip100 on his XP computer.
It works but he does not have SP 2 installed.
Thanks much.
Larry
But it might not be the parallel port version. The easiest to
install with Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP is the
SCSI version. The next easiest to install is the ATA-IDE ZIP
version.
Rob S
2005-10-21 12:05:11 UTC
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On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:07:30 GMT, "Polish Prince \(Szynka\)"
<***@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

-That's the goofy thing Rick, my brother has a Zip100 on his XP computer.
-It works but he does not have SP 2 installed.

It might be worth trying the parallel port settings in BIOS. Set it to
Simple/Normal/Printer Only if you can. Of course your BIOS may not give you a
choice......


-Rob
robatwork at mail dot com
D***@ix.netcom.com
2005-10-20 22:43:42 UTC
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Rick <***@rcn.com> wrote:

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Post by Rick
Of course, if anyone out there has actually gotten a 100 parallel drive
to work under XP or 2000 just jump right in...
I hadn't used my PP Zip 100 in probably more than 5 years, but I
decided to try it.

The computer I used has an Asus P4T533-C motherboard, and it's running
WinXP Pro with SP2. It already had an ATAPI Zip 100 and a 2GB Jaz
drive, and Iomegaware 3.1.1.9 had already been installed for those.
With the computer off, I connected the PP Zip drive and powered it on.
Then, I turned on the computer. After XP booted up, I saw a message
that it had found new hardware. It identified the drive as "IMG VP0",
and this is how it is listed under 'Disk drives' in Device Manager.
There is no Iomega entry there under 'SCSI controllers' as there was
in Windows 9x.

Anyway, the drive was assigned a letter, and it seems to work OK
(I was able to read-from and write-to it). It does not have a blue
Zip icon in My Computer like the ATAPI Zip has. It seems to have a
generic Windows icon (the 2GB Jaz has the same).
Jay
2005-10-26 01:37:20 UTC
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Post by Rick
See the thread on 10/05/2005 "No Icon for Zip100 in My Computer."
Relative to XP, a parallel port Zip is an ancient device and apparently
doesn't work under XP, despite whatever Iomega may claim otherwise.
Rick
This is completely false. Iomega parallel port zip drives work well under
Windows XP. To enable, open device manager and click the checkbox to turn
on the legacy mode of your parallel port.
geothermal
2005-11-05 13:28:07 UTC
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Post by Jay
Post by Rick
See the thread on 10/05/2005 "No Icon for Zip100 in My Computer."
Relative to XP, a parallel port Zip is an ancient device and apparently
doesn't work under XP, despite whatever Iomega may claim otherwise.
Rick
This is completely false. Iomega parallel port zip drives work well under
Windows XP. To enable, open device manager and click the checkbox to turn
on the legacy mode of your parallel port.
# Right-click My Computer
# Click Properties
# Select Hardware tab
# Click the Device Manager Button
# Expand the Ports (COM & LPT) entry
# Right-click Printer Port (LPT1) entry
# Select Properties
# In the Port Settings tab, select the Enable legacy Plug and Play
detection option
# Reboot

Jonathan

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