zip disk detected as a floppy drive

[nuttervm]

im fixing a friends dell computer and when i first started i noticed the drive ids were all screwed up. (ie hard was set as slave, cdrw was not detected at all, dvd was as cable select...) anyways i fixed them and now the zip drive is detected as an atapi device during startup like it should, but on the right side of the post screen says floppy, and windows detects it as such.

any advice on how to fix this? i was thinking of putting it on cable select to see what would happen. i wont bother if someone has encountered this before though.

 

[bacillus]

would this be an Asus m/board. used to happen to me on a P3B-F m/board. I left it as such without any problems, but seem to recall that the fix was to not autodetect the drive in bios. I could be mistaken on that though!

 

[GustySoul]

Hey nuttervm,


That occurs normally on my Asus A7V mainboard as well. There is an option to change it in the BIOS. Try this...


Go into the BIOS and look for where it lists the 4 IDE Devices.

The BIOS should allow you to specificy what kind of device is on which IDE Channel.
Usually however this setting is set to AUTO-DETECT.

Leaving everything at AUTO-DETECT should be fine, but find the one that lists the ZIP Drive.
If you highlight it and press enter, you should be able to turn off AUTO-DETECT and specify
that it is a ZIP ATAPI.

Hopefully the BIOS will then give you an option to "Set Device As Floppy" or Set Device As Hard Disk."
Choose to set it as a hard disk.

Hopefully that will fix the problem,

Good Luck
obispo21

 

[nuttervm]

this mobo is in a Dell machine, and usually those are from intel i think. i looked for that type of solution before, but i will look again just in case i missed something.

any other ideas?

 

[nuttervm]

well, no matter what i did to the bios (there werent many things applicable that i could try changing) nothing worked. then i took the jumper off the drive entirely, because i have had that solve problems before. it worked lets hear it for trying any random thing that comes to mind.

they should put jumpers on the side of drives so i dont have to unmount it out of a rig to change a simple jumper... what a hassle! anyways, thanks to those who tried to help

 

[SUOrangeman]

What OS?

-SUO

 

[nuttervm]

win98

the problem lay in the bios/mobo detection tho, the OS had nothing to do with it. as soon as i pulled that jumper the bios and win98 both detected the drive properly.