Win 2k problem with Zip 100 drive?

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Jim Adney

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I brought home a couple of old Zip 100 drives from work when they
upgraded everyone to Zip 250s. Since we all use Win 2k I figured it
would be easy to install in my PC at home and give me an easy way to
carry large files home.

I can't get it to work at home. The drive shows up, I've assigned it
the letter Z:, but it won't read disks.

Installing the latest version of Iomegaware gets me the special Zip
icon, but still won't read, plus even the Zip icon disappears the next
time I boot up. I did get it to read the very first time I booted, but
that changed on the next reboot.

I've tried 2 different drives, and I think the drives are both good.

The drives are labeled with instructions for jumpering them SIX
different ways: Master, Slave, CS, Master A, Slave A, and CS A. What's
the "A"? So far I've only tried Slave.

I've checked the cable and the jumpers on the Master on that IDE port
(a Maxtor 20GB HD.)

The hardware manager lists the driver for the Zip drive as disk.sys,
even after installing the Iomegaware.

Task Manager shows that Iomegaware is running a process called
imgicon.exe, and there is also a process called imgiconupdate.exe that
runs for just a few seconds after I log in.

Any suggestions as to what I've overlooked?

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Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711 USA
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Did you check support on the Iomega web site?
http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/10014.html

-Ron
(email: replace 'abuse' with 'cyberguy3k')

"Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org> wrote:
I brought home a couple of old Zip 100 drives from work when they
upgraded everyone to Zip 250s. Since we all use Win 2k I figured it
would be easy to install in my PC at home and give me an easy way to
carry large files home.

I can't get it to work at home. The drive shows up, I've assigned it
the letter Z:, but it won't read disks.

Installing the latest version of Iomegaware gets me the special Zip
icon, but still won't read, plus even the Zip icon disappears the next
time I boot up. I did get it to read the very first time I booted, but
that changed on the next reboot.

I've tried 2 different drives, and I think the drives are both good.

The drives are labeled with instructions for jumpering them SIX
different ways: Master, Slave, CS, Master A, Slave A, and CS A. What's
the "A"? So far I've only tried Slave.

I've checked the cable and the jumpers on the Master on that IDE port
(a Maxtor 20GB HD.)

The hardware manager lists the driver for the Zip drive as disk.sys,
even after installing the Iomegaware.

Task Manager shows that Iomegaware is running a process called
imgicon.exe, and there is also a process called imgiconupdate.exe that
runs for just a few seconds after I log in.

Any suggestions as to what I've overlooked?
Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org
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Jim Adney wrote:
I brought home a couple of old Zip 100 drives from work when they
upgraded everyone to Zip 250s. Since we all use Win 2k I figured it
would be easy to install in my PC at home and give me an easy way to
carry large files home.

I can't get it to work at home. The drive shows up, I've assigned it
the letter Z:, but it won't read disks.

Installing the latest version of Iomegaware gets me the special Zip
icon, but still won't read, plus even the Zip icon disappears the next
time I boot up. I did get it to read the very first time I booted, but
that changed on the next reboot.

I've tried 2 different drives, and I think the drives are both good.

The drives are labeled with instructions for jumpering them SIX
different ways: Master, Slave, CS, Master A, Slave A, and CS A. What's
the "A"? So far I've only tried Slave.

I've checked the cable and the jumpers on the Master on that IDE port
(a Maxtor 20GB HD.)

The hardware manager lists the driver for the Zip drive as disk.sys,
even after installing the Iomegaware.

Task Manager shows that Iomegaware is running a process called
imgicon.exe, and there is also a process called imgiconupdate.exe that
runs for just a few seconds after I log in.

Any suggestions as to what I've overlooked?

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Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711 USA
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It sounds like the drives are bad to me. An IDE zip drive doesn't need
any special driver to work in wondows 2000. It should show up as a
removable disk in the explorer.
--
Andy Cuffe
baltimora@psu.edu
 
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 06:05:03 GMT "Ron" <abuse@hotmail.com> wrote:

Did you check support on the Iomega web site?
http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/10014.html
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Yes, but it didn't answer my question.

After 5 rounds of Q & A with their tech support they finally got back
to me about the Master A, Slave A, and CS A questions. It turns out
that this refers to A:, or how one might hope to make this appear as
your floppy drive.

Don't know why I'd want to do that, but at least it helps to narrow
down the problem.

BTW, I took 2 of the Zip 100 drives in to work today and attached them
to my PC in place of the Zip 250 that is there. They worked fine.

They still don't work at home....

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Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711 USA
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On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 07:08:25 GMT Andy Cuffe <baltimora@psu.edu> wrote:

It sounds like the drives are bad to me. An IDE zip drive doesn't need
any special driver to work in wondows 2000. It should show up as a
removable disk in the explorer.
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I tested 2 of the drives in my PC at work today. Both worked just
fine.

Thanks, it helps to know that I should not need special drivers.
Indeed they show up as removable disks with the drive letter I can
select for them.

I just can't read disks that I put in them. When I try to explore
disks I just get a message to put a disk in the drive. Then it waits
forever....

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Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711 USA
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Are you sure the disks have a filesystem you can read on your
computer?





Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org> wrote in message news:
I just can't read disks that I put in them. When I try to explore
disks I just get a message to put a disk in the drive. Then it waits
forever....
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On 10 Dec 2003 10:06:40 -0800 berger@shout.net (Mike Berger) wrote:

Are you sure the disks have a filesystem you can read on your
computer?
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The file system is FAT which W2k can read, and the drives read the
disks just fine for the first reboot, or so. It's only after that that
something seems to go wrong.

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Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711 USA
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