Win98SE/DOS mode: Iomega Parallel Zip drive doesn't work! \ VOGONS

Win98SE/DOS mode: Iomega Parallel Zip drive doesn't work!

Topic actions

First post, by Harry Potter

Posted on 2024-09-22, 04:14

Harry Potter Offline

Rank Oldbie

Rank: Oldbie
Posts: 997
Joined: 2011-06-05, 14:42
Location: New York, U.S.

Hi! I can't seem to get my Zip100 drive to work on my Win98SE computer in DOS mode. The best I got was a proper reading of one Zip disk and write protect errors on others. The worst I got was QEMM giving me an exception. Both the Guest driver and PalmZip caused problems. I disabled them both from the config then tried the Guest driver from the command prompt and am getting write protect errors from Drive @. That is not a typo: I mean the at symbol. I really want Zip disks.

BTW, how do I mount DriveSpace floppies from the DOS prompt? I have a lot of floppies compressed via DriveSpace and want to use them.

Joseph Rose, a.k.a. Harry Potter
Working magic in the computer community

Reply 1 of 9, by Harry Potter

Posted on 2024-09-22, 04:50

Harry Potter Offline

Rank Oldbie

Rank: Oldbie
Posts: 997
Joined: 2011-06-05, 14:42
Location: New York, U.S.

It's also not working in Windows mode. 🙁

Joseph Rose, a.k.a. Harry Potter
Working magic in the computer community

Reply 2 of 9, by wierd_w

Posted on 2024-09-22, 08:07

wierd_w Offline

Rank Oldbie

Rank: Oldbie
Posts: 1109
Joined: 2023-07-14, 06:20

For the latter, abuse scandisk!

There is an undocumented command switch, '/mount', which causes it to mount a CVF if found there, and assume that drive letter. (Very useful for batch scripts that use, say, xmsdsk.exe, to put a copy of windows into a ramdisk, before starting it, such as from booting from a cdrom.)

Eg,

Scandisk /mount A:

Will mount the drvspace.000 file found on drive A, and make it take over that drive letter.

Reply 3 of 9, by Harry Potter

Posted on 2024-09-22, 11:03

Harry Potter Offline

Rank Oldbie

Rank: Oldbie
Posts: 997
Joined: 2011-06-05, 14:42
Location: New York, U.S.

Thank you. I didn't know that. 😀

Joseph Rose, a.k.a. Harry Potter
Working magic in the computer community

Reply 4 of 9, by chinny22

Posted on 2024-09-23, 01:56

chinny22 Offline

Rank l33t++

Rank: l33t++
Posts: 5908
Joined: 2011-08-26, 12:02
Location: Australian but living in the UK for now

When you say not working in windows mode are you using the windows drivers or testing the dos drivers?

In dos if you try a boot disk with just guest.exe and nothing else loaded does it work? (basically, checking if QEMM or some other driver is conflicting with the zip disk driver)
In windows make sure the zipdisk drivers aren't included in autoexec.bat file and try the windows specific driver. (basically confirming its not the dos driver at fault)
http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1476&menustate=0

You can also test on another PC if you have one, the linked driver goes upto WinXP

Reply 5 of 9, by Harry Potter

Posted on 2024-09-23, 12:27

Harry Potter Offline

Rank Oldbie

Rank: Oldbie
Posts: 997
Joined: 2011-06-05, 14:42
Location: New York, U.S.

It was working before. Also, it's not working on a DOS laptop. 🙁

Joseph Rose, a.k.a. Harry Potter
Working magic in the computer community

Reply 6 of 9, by chinny22

Posted on 2024-09-23, 23:45

chinny22 Offline

Rank l33t++

Rank: l33t++
Posts: 5908
Joined: 2011-08-26, 12:02
Location: Australian but living in the UK for now

If it's not working on 2 separate computers. I would begin suspecting the disk or drive is bad 🙁
Only thing I can suggest is try another OS that doesn't use the dos driver so you can be fully sure the dos driver isn't the cause but I wouldn't get my hopes up

Reply 7 of 9, by Harry Potter

Posted on 2024-09-24, 11:02

Harry Potter Offline

Rank Oldbie

Rank: Oldbie
Posts: 997
Joined: 2011-06-05, 14:42
Location: New York, U.S.

Well, recently, my mother bought me a new drive, and I have an internal drive I can install on the Win98SE tower. I have to install it, but I don't know if it's the right type, then I have to install it. I really don't know how, though. 🙁 BTW, different disks also don't work.

Joseph Rose, a.k.a. Harry Potter
Working magic in the computer community

Reply 8 of 9, by chinny22

Posted on 2024-09-25, 00:24

chinny22 Offline

Rank l33t++

Rank: l33t++
Posts: 5908
Joined: 2011-08-26, 12:02
Location: Australian but living in the UK for now

Internal drive will either be SCSI or IDE interface. It should say on the drive
If it's IDE you install it just like a hard drive or CD-ROM, you could even swap out the CD drive for the Zip for testing if that's easier.
SCSI would involve getting a SCSI card so we'll just assume its IDE for now

Reply 9 of 9, by Harry Potter

Posted on 2024-09-25, 10:39

Harry Potter Offline

Rank Oldbie

Rank: Oldbie
Posts: 997
Joined: 2011-06-05, 14:42
Location: New York, U.S.

Thank you. I'll need to figure out how to install the drive now. 😀

Joseph Rose, a.k.a. Harry Potter
Working magic in the computer community

Go to top of page Go to top of page

Back to Software