can anyone diagnose this zip drive?

[Duckers]

My friend gave me an IDE zip drive, but it has one problem, I cannot click on the button to eject the zip disks. I have to right click on drive J:\ and then click on eject.

This zip drive is connected as master on the secondary channel of a PCI controller card, I checked the jumpers and they are ok.

Any ideas? what might be wrong? Other than that, the zip drive is working fine, and according to my friend, he did not have this problem before.

 

[Killbat]

It's perfectly normal, some software can prevert the eject button from working.
For example, if you have a Zip disk formatted with NTFS and you access it under Windows2000, the button will not work. Windows has to do the eject so it can unmount it first. This doesn't happen to FAT disks.

What sort of software situation do you have?

 

[Duckers]

hi killbat, thanks for replying.

I am running windows 98 and I don't have any special software for the zip drive.

This is some info about the zip drive:

Information for Drive J:

Drive Type: Zip 100 Scsi
Interface Type: Scsi, Scsi Id 0
ROM Version: B.29
ROM Date:
Iomega Driver: IOMEGA Universal DASD VSD, 6.7.5.0
Miniport Driver: csa64xx
IomegaWare: Version 2.8.0.2

This is some info about the zip disk I am trying to use:

Disk Information for Disk in Drive J:

Disk Type: Zip 100MB
Disk Life Status: OK (89%)
Format Life Status: Long Format Recommended (50%)
Format Type: PC Format, 16-bit FAT
Manufacture Date:

 

[Duckers]

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[JackMDS]

Put a disk in the zip drive, and shut down the computer.

Start the computer and while it goes throught the boot try to press the eject button.

If it ejects then it is a Windows problem i.e Windows or an other program some how locks the Zip Drive.

If it does not eject before Windows loads, then you have a mechanical problem with the Drive.

 

[Duckers]

well, that didn't work, but I connected the zip drive directly to the secondary IDE channel on the motherboard and it worked fine!

why isn't it working on the controller card?

 

[Zach]

IDE Zip's are very very very picky. Worse than any CDROM I've used.. headache city. They'll make CDROM drives finiky, do funky things, cause systems to bog down at intervals... just find where they work and leave 'em there.

 

[murdock2525]

I alway set them as a slave on secondary with the CD or burner as master. Never had even a burp.

 

[Dumbledore]

killbat u know your stuff..i have the problem with the zip formatted with ntfs and im acessing it on win2000..my question is why does it happen?

thx.