help with Win98SE and Iomega 12x10x32x burner

[crapito]

Iomega 12x10x32x burner shows up as a (CD-Rom Drive) in Device Manager in my computer, which runs Win98SE. as a result, it is not assigned a drive letter in Windows Explorer and therefore doesn't work. it correctly shows up as an IOMEGA ZIPCD3840INT-A in Device Manager of my wife's computer, which is running WinME, and works fine on her computer. this tells me that the drive is fine, so it must be a software problem. I checked my ASPI status using Adaptec's aspichk.exe program, and it reports version 4.60 (1021) which is fine. I tried deleting the drive's registry entries and rebooting, but the problem remains. thus, I am stumped.

any ideas?

thanks.

 

[cockeyed]

I bought one of those super deal IomegaZip 12x10x32 drives and it works fine under Win98SE. Mine shows up as an IOMEGA ZIPCD3840INT-A in Device Manager. Something you might try if you have not, is to enter Safe Mode and clean out any extra entries that might be there under CDROM. Actually, you might just delete all of the CDROM entries in Safe Mode and let Windows re-dectect them again. Also, mine is connected as a slave to a Toshiba CD Player if this makes any difference and both show up under CDROM.

 

[Davegod75]

mine shows up as plextor...hehe

 

[crapito]

I have the Iomega setup as a Master drive on my Secondary IDE controller. I've gone into Safe mode and delete all the cdrom related entries and rebooted, but the problem remains that my Win98SE only id's the drive as (CD-Rom Drive) and not an Iomega burner.

I think it's about time for a reinstall...

 

[kgatwork]

Does it show up correctly in the BIOS?

 

[Ringer]

Double check your bios, make sure you auto detect for the secondary ide. I had the same problem. First install , ezcd creator did not detect a cd recorder but it was assigned a drive letter. It was not accessable though. I uninstalled all of the zip software to include the left over adaptec stuff. I then went into programs and realized the uninstall left some folders, so I manually deleted them. I made sure nothing was left on the machine then shut down all the way. Cold boot and reinstalled the zip software, and i just finished another copy of urban ops for my bud...It did not use any % of the buffer, what a drive! DON'T DELETE ANYTHING BEFORE YOU USE ALL THE UNINSTALL OPTIONSText

 

[crapito]

my BIOS shows the Iomega drive correctly, so it is just Windows 98SE that doesn't like my drive. I never installed any of the ZipCD software as I think Adaptec EZ-CD stuff is crap compared with Nero, CDRWin, CloneCD, etc...

 

[slimjim]

What a coincidence! I just received my TDK 121032 drive yesterday and have the same problem. It shows up in the A7V bios correctly but Win98 doesn't want to know it.
I booted to my Win 98 startup floppy and after loading the dos drivers, the new drive was there. I then reinstalled Win 98 using the TDK drive. As soon as it was finished, I checked Explorer and.....nope, no drive.
Repeated this installing Win Me.... no good.
I'm waiting for TDK tech support to enlighten me.

 

[Mday]

is the controller installed correctly?

depending on the configuration, windows may not have "activated" the channels correctly. this was one of my problems, for some reason, the secondary controller on the mobo was "disabled" in windows, and NOT the BIOS which did detect the drive properly.

do install the CD mastering software, and if you can burn, i would not worry.

 

[Ringer]

Well in BIG letters inside the retail box it states install software first, before you install the drive.......hummm, maybe?

 

[crapito]

Mday: I can have the drive on any one of my 4 IDE controllers and my computer still won't recognize it beyond a "CD-Rom Drive". oh well...

Ringer: there is no way I am going to install Adaptec cdr software simply to ID my drive. that would be silly and unnecessary as my wife's computer recognizes the drive and also, I'd only be uninstalling it as soon as I installed it. I'd rather reinstall Win98SE, which will also clean up my system in general.

thanks for the help everyone. I will reinstall Win98SE this weekend, so I'll see then if the problem is solved, which I expect it will.