The OS is Windows 98se.  I may have to continue to use the printer port [a parallel port] with the computer I am setting up.  I was trying to seperate them.  The external Zip250 has a parallel port on the back, so a printer can be daisey-chained to it. if need be.

joseph marty wrote:

> The BIOS for the Ultra 100 detects the drives during the boot, and I'm sure you've seen the additional screen for it.  Its BIOS is updatable but not separately accessible.  If you connect a DVD or CD writer to it it will say no drives connected on that channel is there is not also a hard drive on the channel.  Your computer will see those drives, and they will work.  I've used an Ultra 100 for years now without problems, even way back on an Intel LX440 slot 1 mobo.
>
> For the legacy parallel port I would suggest you look in your BIOS at which IRQ's show as being available and set your jumpers for that. A better setup would be to trade your external Zip drive for an internal Zip 100 or 250 (ultra cheap now) and put that on one channel to the ultra 100 with your hard drive.  If you screw up setting the jumpers on the ISA card and there is a conflict with an IRQ being used by something else your computer will lock up on you. In Win 95/98 you could go into device manager and reset the port.  It would show if you had a conflict. I seem to remember with some ISA sound card installations you could pick a port, but not with an ISA parallel port, since there is no installation process as it is PnP. I think setting the port with the jumper and hoping it does not conflict is the best you can do.  What is your OS?
>
> I would advise you not to spend too much time and money on old legacy technology because your next computer will not support any of it. ISA slots have been gone for about 4-5 years, serial ports are gone, and parallel ports are getting harder to find.  Everything is USB/Firewire.
>
> "Edward A, Black, Sr." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >I have a computer I am working on that has an ASUS P3B-F Slot1 P-III.  I
> >have a 20G harddrive attached thru an Untra100  PCI-IDE card.  The
> >manual for the ASUS motherboard explains how to set BIOS information for
> >onboard IDE ports [I have other harddrives/CD-RWs attached to those
> >ports].
> >
> >How do I access the BIOS on the Ultra100 card so I can adjust if needed
> >or check on statistics, depending on device attached [ie:  a future DVD
> >unit]?  I
> >assume this procedure would work had it been an Ultra66 or some other
> >PCI-IDE card.
> >
> >I also inserted a Wiseland ISA Parallel Port.  I am not sure if it is
> >PnP or not, It is for an external  Zip250 drive I have.  How can I be
> >sure if I can read or write to the Zip drive if it is plugged in to this
> >parallel port.  I was unsucessful when I used in in the older Pentium
> >computer that I have.
> >
> >In this case, the card can use IRQ5 or IRQ7 [set to IRQ7 by a jumper]
> >and use ports 378, 278, or 3BC [set to 378 by jumpers].   I assume that
> >I need to go to the ASUS BIOS and set IRQ7 to be reserved so that IRQ7
> >is not used elsewhere and can be used by the parallel port card [&
> >Zip250 deive]?  How do I reserve a port address for it?
> >

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