Thanks Michael, Since the Zip was originally installed as OEM we didn't
have the manual for the drive so didn't see the warning about Auto
detection. We had been concentrating on trouble shooting the tape unit and
didn't look at the Zip drive as closely as we should have.  I have gone to
the Iomega site and downloaded the manual. This may also explain a small
but annoying problem with Zip drive in that it would not read a Zip disk
after you manually ejected a disk, but a soft eject from the shortcut menu
would restore the reading capability.

I have Emailed my son who is now back at summer school to see if this will
solve his problems.

Thanks,

Doc


At 7/4/99 07:38 PM , Michael Gray wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>
>I recently upgraded my son's computer to an Abit BH6 motherboard with
>PII-400 with 128 Meg Ram.  On the first IDE channel we had a new Western
>Digital 8.4 Gig hard drive and a 3.0 G WD.  The secondary channel has as
>Master an IDE Zip drive. This setup works fine. The operating system is Win
>98.  We have all IDE channels set to auto detect.
>
>[Michael Gray]  The instructions that came with my Zip disk said to NOT have
>the drive autodetected. I recently had to reinstall win98 and haven't
>reinstalled my zip and Sparq drives, but they were working fine before. I've
>got 6 IDE drives hooked to my system (2 hard drives master and slave on the
>first motherboard slot, a CD-RW and standard CD as master and slave on the
>second slot and the zip and Sparq hooked to the connector on my
>Soundblaster.)
>
>We removed the Seagate tape drive (will get model number if needed, it is
>one that uses the 4 Gig Travan backup tapes).  The tape was working fine
>when we removed it from the old chassis.  The manual says to connect it to
>the secondary channel and if another device is on the channel to make it
>the slave.  We located the jumpers for both the  Zip drive and set it to
>master (it worked ok alone with that configuration) and then set the
>Seagate to slave with its jumpers.  When we rebooted neither the ZIP drive
>nor the tape unit were recognized by the BIOS.  I then just removed the
>data cable from the tape unit and rebooted.  All ok, Zip drive shows up.  I
>then disconnected the Zip drive, jumpered the tape unit as only device on
>channel and re-booted.  The tape unit was not recognized by the BIOS.  The
>computer pauses a relatively long time while trying to detect what is on
>the second channel when the tape unit is connected but then says nothing
>connected.
>
>Any clues on where to start our search?
>
>[Michael Gray]  Are you positive the jumpers are correct? Seems like the
>logical place to start since that's the only thing you seem to have changed.
>
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