I just spent a week on this a while ago. It is a BIOS issue. If the
manufacturer plans to update the BIOS soon and fix the problem, then there
is a workaround. Set the BIOS for that drive to false parameters (such as
drive type #1). Then when the machine boots, it will give an error and let
you press F1 to continue. After that the drive will work fine. I took
another route. Iomega is selling the SCSI insiders with a rudimentary SCSI
card for only a few dollars more the the IDE drive. I replaced the drives in
the 2 offending systems to fix the problem, rather than swap out the
motherboards for a different make.

Karl Gottshalk
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>The drive works fine...  that is not the issue.   The problem is that
>is shows up as the "B" drive and icon in My Computer labels it
>as a 3.5" floppy drive.
>
>I have also configured the drive as a lone Master on the secondary,
>Slave to the CD Rom drive on the Secondary and now it is the slave
>on the Primary to a Seagate 3.2gig UDMA drive.   Switching cabling
>has had no effect.

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