Jorpho wrote:Do you mean it doesn't show up in Windows?
Have you installed the Iomega drivers?
Yhea, I'm chalking it up at this point to just the motherboard being weird. The zip drive works fine with or without the Iomega drivers installed. with the drivers installed I just have a few of those utilities and the Icon changes instead of being generic but still no 5 1/4 floppy. only way it seems I can make it show up is if I open the PC case and disconnect the Zip drive. if I do that the 5 1/4 floppy drive shows up and works fine.
here's another bit of weirdness. lets say I have it like it is right now with everything hooked up. I boot up into windows, so I have no 5 1/4 drive showing up but I do have the 3 1/2 as drive A:\ works just fine. now if I restart into MS DOS mode suddenly the 3 1/2 drive is now drive B:\ and there is no A:\ drive detected.
its an ABIT BE6 board. it has a built in ata66 controller that from what i'm reading can act a little weird. apparently it eats up an IRQ and I do have this machine loaded with drives. maybe its taking up to many resources, didn't think that would mess with the floppy drives though. also I never loaded the BIOS to enable the extra the thing anyways so i'm not sure if it would be doing anything.