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Date: | Wed, 29 Apr 1998 06:51:10 -0600 |
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Well, since I wrote the following response and it got brought up again, I
tried to find the information I mention and found only the following on the
Iomega site:
>Revision 002
>
>Document #2047
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>Booting From A Zip Drive Using DOS
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>This document applies to the following:
>Operating System: MS-DOS, Win 3.1x, PC-DOS
>Device Type: SCSI Zip 100
>Software Version: 3.0x, 4.xx, 5.xx
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>The Zip SCSI drive was not designed to be a bootable device and has not
been advertised by Iomega as being a bootable device. The Zip Parallel Port
drive, like all parallel port devices, can't be bootable.
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>Although not officially supported, it may be possible to boot from a Zip
SCSI drive. There are only 4 Iomega SCSI adapters that can boot a Zip
drive. They are: PC1616, PC800, PC90, Jaz Jet PCI SCSI.
>
>Limitations:
>
>1.Only one of the 4 compatible adapters can be installed in the system at
a time.
2.The PC2 is no longer supported.
3.No other SCSI device can have a SCSI ID lower than the External Zip drive
(5 or 6). The 3.5 inch internal zip drive may be set to SCSI ID 0-7.
>
>Important Support Note
>
>If problems are encountered making the Zip SCSI drive bootable with DOS,
Iomega is not responsible for providing technical assistance since this is
an unsupported and unadvertised feature.
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>Copyright ©1998 Iomega Corp. All rights reserved.
I did find an article on PCWorld Online about booting from a parallel port
ZIP, but it requires an add-in card ...
http://www.idg.net/idg_frames/english/content.cgi?vc=story_1438.html
I also found another discussion of booting from a SCSI and an IDE Zip drive
at:
http://cgi.asus.com.tw/Products/NEWS/96-10/msg00535.html
At 08:46 AM 4/28/98 +0000, you wrote:
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>> It is possible. I think the Iomega Web site has information on how to do
>> this.
>> www.iomega.com
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>> At 11:35 PM 4/26/98 -0600, you wrote:
>> >Well the questions regarding the boot from CD, got me thinking about the
>> >possibility of booting from an internal IDE Zip Drive. Does anyone know
the
>> >process? Is this possible?
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