Bob..the installation is OK. It IS a 3.5" drive except for greater capacity.
Treat it as Drive B. You'll see that when you put a partially full zip disk
in the drive and look in My Computer that it will be listed and a double
click will give a Pie chart showing the correct info as well
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Wright <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 1:45
Subject: [PCBUILD] Iomega Zip drive comes up as "B" drive
>Hi..
>
>I know this is a common issue, though it is the first
>time I have run into it. I hope someone might have a solid
>cure for me.
>
>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.
>
>The motherboard is a Biostar MS-6119 with Award bios v4.15G.
>
>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.
>
>The one evening I need into the archives of PCBUILD and the server
>is down at our Listserver... *sigh*
>
>Your input would be appreciated.
>
>
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