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>         Hi.
>         Two questions, for an expert in internal ide Zip's:
>         -1). I've tried to boot from an ide Zip, on a PC with Award
> bios. For this, I did SYS from DOS over a Zip, and there appeared IO.SYS,
> MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM. But when booting from the Zip, the message
> "Starting MS-DOS" appears, and stays for ever. The PC responds to
> Ctrl+Alt+Del, so isn't lost. This method is on the believe that the
> ide Zip is just like a floppy. What am I missing? (inserting in config
> device=ASPIATAP.SYS (see below) doesn't make any difference).

Javier I'm sure you have it set to boot from the Zip in the BIOS. Try a
format /s on the zip disk just for the hell of it and see if that works.  It
should be just like a floopy so maybe doing this will work.

>         -2). I see that on the Iomega software for the Zip there are
> two files related to the ide ZIP: ASPIIDE.SYS and ASPIATAP.SYS. The
> ide Zip is recognized with just GUEST.EXE, GUEST.INI and ASPIATAP.SYS,
> but not with ASPIIDE.SYS instead of ASPIATAP.SYS. What is then
> ASPIIDE.SYS for? More: what is the exact difference between IDE and
> ATAPI? (I think ATAPI is a subset of the IDE spec, but am not sure).

I think when booting of the Zip you don't need to worry about those files. is
pretty much a BIOS thing I think.

HTH

Jose


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