General Discussion - Millennium Problems

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Millennium Problems

giao04

2001-04-02, 11:58 pm

Help! After doing a clean install on Millennium twice, the OS keeps designating my Zip drive as floppy "B". I have a writer on primary IDE and CD-ROM/Zip on secondary IDE. My hard drive is on Maxtor ATA expansion card on PCI bus. I've double-checked CMOS and all settings are correct. Anyone have any clues to why the OS is designating the Zip as floppy "B"?

2001-04-04, 12:45 am

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Originally posted by giao04
Anyone have any clues to why the OS is designating the Zip as floppy "B"?

Maybe because is made by Microsoft?

2001-04-04, 8:57 am

Is your zip internal?

Did you update the ME version after installed?
Did you try the latest driver for the ZIP?

2001-04-04, 11:56 pm

Yes my zip is internal. I.ve gotten all the updates for Millennium. I haven't tried updating the driver for the disk yet. Wii try that next. Thanks.

giao04

2001-04-06, 1:37 am

Go to BIOS and disable Floppy B. OR buy a floppy drive and install it(se it up as B

. then install the ZIP drive. Have you tried setting the CDROM/ZIP as slave on primary controller.

Just throwing a couple of options at ya

2001-04-06, 7:52 am

In BIOS, floppy "B" is disabled. The CD-ROM/Zip is installed as master/slave on secondary IDE channel. Would it really make a difference to change it to the primary channel?

giao04

2001-04-06, 9:31 am

I believe your problem is documented at Iomega's website. Seems I've read something about zips being assigned as floppy B over there adn they have a fix for it. If I remember right, it's not just a ME problem.

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