13 Oct
2005
13 Oct
'05
9:28 a.m.
IDE Channel 1: HD0 (master) and CD/DVD-RW (slave), cable detect IDE Channel 2: HD1 and Zip100 - both slave - not cable-detect.
I think the problem may be the 2 slaves on IDE Channel 2. I think each IDE channel needs to have one master.
Well spotted. My old Zip100 drive was very reluctant to work with any other device on an IDE channel, and, when I upgraded to a CDRW drive, I was happy to get rid of the Zip drive in exchange for a couple of bottles of beer.
Anthony> Do you really need the Zip100 drive? DVDRW is very affordable now and you get 4GB to a standard disk (which equals 40 Zip100 disks!).
The upside of Zip drives are their nice disk speed, which cdrw does not give you - however, flash memory is also a potential replacement...
JT