At 01:32 PM 12/9/98 , David Gillett wrote:
>On  8 Dec 98 at 22:17, Bob Wright wrote:
>
>> The problem is that a new system I am building for a client
>> has an Internal Iomega Atapi Zip 100 drive.   Win98 only will
>> assign it as a 3.5" floppy drive in My Computer.
>>
>> I have tried setting the CMOS setting for this drive to every
>> option, including NONE & AUTO.  The Bios continues to find
>> the drive and call it a floppy.
>
>  I've built two machines with internal ATAPI Zip drives.  Both are,
>so far, running Win95 without the problem you describe.
>  I generally have the ZIP and CD-ROM drive on the second EIDE
>channel, configured in the BIOS to auto-detect.
>
>  Windows shows the drive as "Removable" without installion of any
>drivers, and assigns a drive letter as if it were a hard drive
>(changable through Device Manager).  My external Zip drives (one
>parallel, one SCSI) are specifically identified as "Zip 100"; I
>believe those are machines on which I installed drivers from Iomega
>rather than just letting Win95 recognize the drive.
>  It's possible that Iomega offers a Win98 driver that might fix the
>problem for you.

Thank David and everyone else who responded.

It turns out that the problem is in the system's BIOS.  It does not support
the Zip drive properly.   After trying everything I could think of, (swapping
IDE channel positions, jumper settings on the zip drive, updating the BIOS
and the zip driver), I tried the drive in another system.   The drive was
recognized immediately and properly, (the test system used an ASUS
P2B motherboard).

My client opted not to spend more money on a better motherboard and was
willing to accept that the drive displayed as a "floppy"  or the "B" drive.  The
drive works fine, it just is a matter of the way in which Win98 displayed the
drive in My Computer as the B drive/ 3.5" floppy.   Other than that the zip 100
drive works fine.

I do not like the solution...  but, that is the decision of my client.


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