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internal zip locks up after re-installed Win98

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kjacobs

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My windows screwed up and I have formatted the hard drive and re-installed windows 98. Now the zip drive locks up and the light stays on when I insert a disk. The mouse and everything freezes. I have to turn the on/off switch off to get the thing to let me eject. Reset alone will not do it.

I'v installed the win98 driver from Iomega (its a NEC drive) and of course the iomega software on the CD that came with the drive.

What should I check in the BIOS to make sure it is reading correctly? The zip is a slave to the CD RW drive and has worked fine for several weeks before the windows re-install.

The docs said that the zip is configured as a slave without any jumpers. The Device Manager says there are no conflicts.

It;s driving me crazy (ier).

Ken
 
If you go to VIAs or Iomegas pages you may find a fix. Has to do with drivers and or IDE channels . This drove me crazy with a KT-133 mobo/4 in 1s about 6 months ago. Finally I just stuck in a controller card and ran the zip off of that. After that they fixed the problem.
 
this is from VIA...
applies if you have a VIA chipset.

"IDE Driver/Devices

Question:
I cannot get my IDE Zip drive to work properly - what do I do?

Answer:
Download and install the latest 4in1 drivers if you have not already done so. Then download and install the IDE-Busmaster V3.12. This is all explained in one of the sections under Step three on the drivers page. Then set the Zip-Drive to DMA disabled and PIO-Mode 1 in BIOS. Open the the IDE-Tool provided with Busmaster-Driver and set the Zip-Drive to PIO-Mode 3. Restart your computer and the process is finished."

....

Now, you have everything jumped correctly? is the IDE cable and power connector red next to red?

Mac

PS...forget the Iomega software.

 
If all fails. Put the zip on a separate IDE controller. Not a bad idea anyway as the zip slows everything on the cable down anyway..
 
Thanks for all the replies. I found the latest driver on Iomega and it seems to work. Only problem now is that when I try to use Norton rescue (as a test), I get a blue screen and it says it cannot write to the zip. SO I'm off to a Norton newsgroup I guess!

Happy New Year to all!

Ken
 
I just can't seem to get this to work. I've installed the Via 4 in 1 drivers and have taken the zip out of the BIOS. It is a slave on the secondary IDE (Liteon CD-RW is master). Zip has no jumpers as a slave per the Iomega instructions.

SOmetimes it work and sometimes it freezes the PC so that I have to turn the on/off switch on the back off to get it to shutdown.

I re-install the Iomega drivers and it works for a while then BLAMMO!

Ken
 
If I get a separate IDE controler card (PCI) do I get an ATA 66 or ATA100? It would be just for the NEC 100 internal zip drive.

I guess I would install the controller, any software, and then configure the zip as a master on it?

Ken
 
I had this same problem with my internal Zip and KT133A board. Luckily I had an onboard ATA/100 controller that I ran the Zip off of. Either an ATA/66 or ATA/100 would work since the Zip isn't a UDMA device. All you really need is a plain ol' IDE interface.
 
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