Can an IDE Zip250 drive be accessed from DOS?

[Noriaki]

I want to use a DOS Boot disk (or hell the Zip disk itself) and load up some of my old DOS games that won't run under win2k Any hope of this working?

Iomega's website says Windows only

 

[divinemartyr]

Iomega's site actually mentions that the parallel port version is compatible with DOS, as well as the SCSI version. Obviously USB will not work, and the internal ATAPI drive is listed as compatible in Windows only.

If you really want this to work, you may need a bootable SCSI card (Such as a 2940 from Adaptec) or the Parallel port version.

dm

 

[SUOrangeman]

You should be able to use the IOmega Guest Driver. Jaz and Zips seem to respond to it, regardless of SCSI or parallel connection.

-SUO

 

[SiliconVandal]

I use my zip drive to reinstall windows, etc..as a startup disk and regular floppy. There are a few things I had to do..
1. Unplug your floppy entirely...
2. Zip MUST be on Master
3. Bios has to be set to boos LS/ZIP as the first device, not floppy. (LS/ZIP, HD, CDROM)

Works fine for me, I have a Zip 100 IDE though.

 

[WebDude]

I don't think you can boot from a 250 ZIP drive. (I think that is your real question.) You can boot from a floppy, install drivers, and access the 250 zip that way. But the mb's bios's that support booting from a zip drive will, to my understanding, only boot from a 100 zip drive, not the 250.

 

[Citadel535]

If your system BIOS supports Zip drives then you can access it in DOS. However if you have a USB one then I do not believe so.

 

[Noriaki]

No I don't mind booting from my floppy.

I want to make a 250mb zip disk that I can use in DOS.

All my hard drives are NTFS which you can't access from DOS.

I want to install some old DOS games (Hexen, Doom2, Warcraf1 ) on a Zip disk and play them from that with a DOS boot disk

Win2k (and winXP) won't play DOS games with sound.

 

[Noriaki]

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