Oops.  Never had problems with bad sectors.  The drives I have used always
worked flawlessly.  I have also never been able to access my Zip drive in
DOS without loading the DOS drivers.  Hmmm, I don't know why Iomega would
say this.  I know I don't have to load the drivers with Windows (even 2K
worked great), but the drive is an ATAPI device, so like a CD ROM I don't
see how you could make it work without drivers.

Kyle

From: "Mark Rode" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Iomega Zip drive questions.


> >The drive can be used in both, but device drivers must load either way.
In
> >other words, you need to load drivers in your Autoexec.bat file when
booting
> >to DOS.
>
> Are you positive about this ?
> Iomega told me on the phone this morning that for simple access I did not
> have to load DOS drivers.
>
>
> >You cannot use a lot of the fancier functions in DOS, but it
> >doesn't sound like your going to need them for this application anyway.
>
> Which means I don't need to load DOS drivers in order to copy to the drive
? ?
> How reliable are the drives....do you have problems with bad sectors?
>
> thanks
> m

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