GuestDOS does not need a driver to be loaded - I remember using my LPT ZIP drive at my friends PCs without having to edit config.sys/autoexec.bat, I just ran the binary from a floppy and a new drive letter appeared.

Ah... Thanks for the reply. I will try that idea from a floppy instead.
T.

After downloaded a heap of different drivers and cds / floppy images.... From all over the web...

I have finally found a version for the Zip100 Parallel port version driver that works in DOS!!

Attached is the driver i'm using thats work fine!! Might want to add to the Files section??

T.

Well...the PalmSys driver is much smaller than the Guest driver. I was unable to find it on the web--broken link. 🙁 If you want, I can look for it on my computer and, if found, attach it here. Do you want it?

Harry Potter wrote on 2024-11-02, 11:21:

Well...the PalmSys driver is much smaller than the Guest driver. I was unable to find it on the web--broken link. 🙁 If you want, I can look for it on my computer and, if found, attach it here. Do you want it?

FYI PalmZip

https://www.minuszerodegrees.net/transfer/zip/zip_drive.htm

AUG2024: Klause used to have a web page, but no longer. A copy of the web page is at https://web.archive.org/web/20231021040756/ht … hl/palmzipe.htm .

There's still an email link to order the full version.

Demo version can still be downloaded from https://www.minuszerodegrees.net/software/palmdemo.zip

I thank you for the correction, and I'm sorry for the mistake. 😀

Did you have tested change LPT settings in bios? SPP,ECP,EPP sometthing like that

weedeewee: I just checked your web site. PalmZip seems to be incompatible with newer Parallel Zip drives. I don't know if the drives I used to have were P or P2 but did notice that the driver only works sometimes: half the time, access to the drive after loading the driver only sometimes works. Would that happen on P2?

BTW, I like this driver for its low memory footprint and want it to work on my computers.

BTW, all my Parallel Zip100 drives are broken, and I believe it's my fault: I pressed the eject button too firmly on one and used the wrong power supply on the other. My mother bought me a replacement for one but couldn't do it for the other, as didn't have the money at hand for the other. I'm wondering if I should install an IDE one that's there or buy another Parallel one. I believe I can do it with guidance, and it should be faster, but a Parallel one nay be easier. If install the IDE one, I need instructions on how to do it.

Harry Potter wrote on 2024-11-02, 16:58:

weedeewee: I just checked your web site. PalmZip seems to be incompatible with newer Parallel Zip drives. I don't know if the drives I used to have were P or P2 but did notice that the driver only works sometimes: half the time, access to the drive after loading the driver only sometimes works. Would that happen on P2?

BTW, I like this driver for its low memory footprint and want it to work on my computers.

BTW, all my Parallel Zip100 drives are broken, and I believe it's my fault: I pressed the eject button too firmly on one and used the wrong power supply on the other. My mother bought me a replacement for one but couldn't do it for the other, as didn't have the money at hand for the other. I'm wondering if I should install an IDE one that's there or buy another Parallel one. I believe I can do it with guidance, and it should be faster, but a Parallel one nay be easier. If install the IDE one, I need instructions on how to do it.

Sorry, can't really help you further. also It's not my website 😀
I never really liked zip drives. They serve their purpose but to keep using them all the time, no thanks.
I once bought a zip 100 plus, lpt or scsi, and that one got lost somehow 🙁
In the meantime I have a collection of over 10 zip drives, some 100, some 250, most lpt, some ide, one or two scsi 😒
I like the scsi ones a little bit more. but I have no idea how many of those I have atm are working.

The IDE zip drives are, for all I recall, mostly like any ide device, master or slave.
I think, dependent on the computer bios you can omit loading the guest driver to assign the zip a drive letter but I'm not sure of that.

A broken button you could likely fix. Use of the wrong power supply depends on if you used one with a higher voltage, (most likely), in which case, I'm assuming, the drive will be 'toast'.
Opening the plastic of the zip drive can be a bit tricky but it's possible without breaking too much so you can still close it afterwards 😁

I think the broken-button ones (I forgot to mention that I broke other Zip100 drives that way before 🙁 ) are beyond repair and that you're right about the bad-connection one. 🙁 Can you point me to a web site that explains how to connect IDE drives, please? I prefer text over video. BTW, I'm sorry about calling the linked site yours. Silly mistake!

Harry Potter wrote on 2024-11-02, 18:17:

I think the broken-button ones (I forgot to mention that I broke other Zip100 drives that way before 🙁 ) are beyond repair and that you're right about the bad-connection one. 🙁 Can you point me to a web site that explains how to connect IDE drives, please? I prefer text over video. BTW, I'm sorry about calling the linked site yours. Silly mistake!

The IDE zip drives are just like attaching a cdrom or harddrive. there is nothing more to know or read about connecting them aside from the master/slave part which is also present on cdroms & harddrives.

Also, lets not take this thread too far off. Start your own topic if you must or do some more googling by yourself.

You're right, and I'm sorry. I'll Google it now.

The only driver i can't find now is a dos zip100 disk high level formatter. I can format them in 98SE. But now i have the drive going in Dos... would be nice to have a dos util to do it....

OH and my Zip250 IDE drive works well in Win 10. 😀