After the long three day battle of the ZIP drive, I have re-encountered the very first problem in the chain.
A parallel ZIP drive works fine on this system. It has a single IDE controller port on the motherboard, so I put my XT-IDE in. Since the XT-IDE doesn't support ATAPI or CD-ROM drives yet, I plugged the ZIP drive and DVD drive into the motherboard, and my HDD into the XT-IDE. It boots, and upon running guest it does not detect the ZIP drive. Now, I haven't set up an internal ZIP drive in 10 years, so I am very fuzzy on if guest even SHOULD work, but I think so.
Just to make sure, I tried the parallel ZIP again and it still works fine, without even a reboot after trying the internal.
Does anyone have experience with internal ZIP drives - is guest.exe fine for them?
I am thinking that perhaps XT-IDE is disabling my onboard controller somehow, but earlier in my crusade I tried having just the ATAPI ZIP and HDD on the motherboard controller, no XT-IDE, so that shouldn't be the case.
Ideas?
A parallel ZIP drive works fine on this system. It has a single IDE controller port on the motherboard, so I put my XT-IDE in. Since the XT-IDE doesn't support ATAPI or CD-ROM drives yet, I plugged the ZIP drive and DVD drive into the motherboard, and my HDD into the XT-IDE. It boots, and upon running guest it does not detect the ZIP drive. Now, I haven't set up an internal ZIP drive in 10 years, so I am very fuzzy on if guest even SHOULD work, but I think so.
Just to make sure, I tried the parallel ZIP again and it still works fine, without even a reboot after trying the internal.
Does anyone have experience with internal ZIP drives - is guest.exe fine for them?
I am thinking that perhaps XT-IDE is disabling my onboard controller somehow, but earlier in my crusade I tried having just the ATAPI ZIP and HDD on the motherboard controller, no XT-IDE, so that shouldn't be the case.
Ideas?