After trying numerous combinations of drives, Operating Systems, and
computer hardware, I finally solved the problem of the unrecognized ZIP
disk! The trouble turned out to be a jumper on the back of the drive that
determines whether it is master or slave. According to Iomega, the slave
setting can either have a jumper on the middle set of pins, or have no
jumper at all. On my drive there was a jumper. Removing the jumper solved
the problem. To recap, under Windows 98 it worked fine with the jumper, but
with XP the jumper prevented it from reading old FAT formatted disks, but it
read newly formatted disk just fine. Now it reads both with no trouble under
XP or Win98. Go figure!
 
Peter
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