![]() I then tried the Zip drivers from the Partis website (just the free read only version to see if that made any difference) and the drive was recognized and the disc was read and could be verified! I did note that the Zip was referred to as ‘hard disc’ by the Partis drivers? I also received another message saying the Zip drive couldn’t be accessed as the printer was in use by the ‘Turbo drivers’? (cant remember what I did now to get this message, sorry!) When I bring up the menu for the Zip software all of the options are greyed out except for ‘Quit’, I tried using some of the * options via the command prompt (IZipErase) but I just got a message saying drive empty (which of course its not.) So I cannot see a way to format the disc via the A3010 using this method. When the Zip is connected and !zip is loaded the icon shows the drive with ‘unformatted’ which I understand may be because the disc has been formatted on a PC and the A3010 can’t read it. I have downloaded the !Zip drivers (via flax cottages website) and extracted to the DOM using spark. I wanted to use the Zip drive to transfer larger files than the 1.44mb floppy can handle as well as make back ups. I have a bit of a conundrum with my A3010 and a recently acquired Iomega Zip100 parallel drive with 2 discs. The A3010 is RISC 3.11, 4mb and an internal podule with DOM (thank you IanS). If you see any similarities in our situations, you might post back with the information to see if we can figure something out.īTW, I tried various BIOS settings for the parallel port, also.I am a long time Acorn owner (BBC B with gotek, Master with data Centre and multi processor board) and have finally been able to purchase an A3010 after wanting one for many years. Don't want to use write cache on a removable disk!) ![]() That's the only apparent difference between the driver as installed on her system and the driver as installed on my system. And in the meantime, the cursor won't move, and it's even damned difficult to get Task Manager to come up!!! When I looked in the driver properties I saw that the Write Cache enabled checkbox was grayed out. Now the Device Manager does list the drive, but it takes Explorer almost 4 minutes just to list the drive contents. On my friend's Dimension 4100 I installed the latest Iomega drivers (not the whole software install, just the drivers) freshly downloaded from the Web site. The Zip drive works faster under W2K than it did under Win98SE, which I used for about 6 months. I occasionally use a parallel port Zip drive with my Inspiron 7500 to give data to other people who use Zip drives. Unlike every other Windows 2000 Pro system I've seen, the system didn't give any indication of having recognized the Zip drive!Īll of the other W2K Pro systems I've seen were installed by me, NOT OEM images, and all of them recognized Zip drives immediately and used them correctly. After I completed the initial setup of the system, I powered down, added the parallel port Zip drive, and rebooted. ![]() She had saved her data to a bunch of Zip disks from her old system so that we could restore the data to the new one. Besides a 7200 rpm 20 Meg Maxtor, the system has internal DVD-ROM and CD-ROM. The processor is an 800+ MHz Pentium III. It's got the OEM image (FAT32) of Windows 2000 Professional SP1 on it. I ran into an interesting phenomenon yesterday. What other drives do you have installed on this system? Which operating system are you using? If multi-boot, does the drive perform the same in all of those operating systems? Is this system running the same OS as the previous system on which the Zip drive worked better?ģ. Is this a Zip 100, Zip Plus, or Zip 250?Ģ. ![]() Could you provide more information, please? It might be helpful to know a few things, among them:ġ.
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