| From: | David McMinn |
| Date: | 28 Aug 2000 at 10:59:57 |
| Subject: | Re: Another problem... :( |
Hi Nick
> As noted in the below statements i made, yes :) It crashes when IDEFix is
> loaded whether the dosdriver is active or not on insertion of a zip disk. Is
> this related to the zip disks being bad perhaps?
I don't think so. You're drive isn't death clicking? (Insert disk and you get a
series of loud clicks.)
> > In the ZipStandard docs it says you should disable the IDEFix
> > superfloppy stuff. I don't know how to do this as I've never looked
> > at
> > it, but perhaps something like this is causing the problem.
>
> The docs seem to only be bothered with previous version history :( Itried
> to see if IDEFix had any parameters with C:IDEFix ? but that resulted in a
> nice guru requester.... :-(
I had a look again at the docs. You might need to load up the IDEFix prefs
program and set the appropriate unit mount for your zip drive to be "Mount
floppy". That would seem to enable superfloppy stuff though, which would be the
opposite of the zipstandard docs. You could try it anyway. You could also try
forcing it to be an ATAPI unit type (also in prefs program).
> If you have SCSI or IDE drives with the cable the wrong way around,
> the
> light will stay on, but I meant the lights stay on and on and on when
> a zip
> disk is insered, that is the hard disk and zip drive. If either cable
> connection was the wrong way round, then the miggy wouldn't boot, so
> they
> have to be....
I meant the cable might have been the wrong way round on the Zip drive, but the
right way on the HDD. But if you're sure I'll believe you.
> I stated earlier that i cannot afford nor would want to buy IDEFix at
> the
> price it is if it won't sort the problem, mainly it's a case of money
> tbh
> and a reluctance to spend out more on computers...
Thats fair enough, I wasn't having a go at you, and you shouldn't register
something you're not going to use.
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