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by waynerinke

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I have just reinstalled win98 v2 and I now have my zip drive (on secondary slave) been reported as drive b 3 1/2 floppy. does anyone have a fix?

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by opatzg9

Have you ran the install yet for windows for your zip drive? You should have a diskette and a tools disk for the zip drive. take and read through the readme.txt and guest.txt (on zip floppy) to get the right aspi driver for win98 loaded. That should fix it.
Good luck

by waynerinke

I have the same drive in another computer and the drivers are the same. I did not want to set up all the zip tools etc. this was working perfectly on this system on the secondary. I added a second drive to the primary and the problems started.

by waynerinke

I have gone to both sites and tried as directed.
the first site suggestion would not work as the drive letters were greyed out in the settings box.
I tried the second site, telling the bios (none) and this changed the drive letter to H (correct drive letter) however it still shows as a 3 1/2 floppy drive.

by opatzg9

have you tried at the guest line to set the drive letter manually?
guest letter=h
Is it reported in bios as drive b:?
Normally if a drive b: doesn't exist the floppy drive a: will doubly map as b:
The zip drive plugs into an ide cable right?
I have an external parallel version so for the most part i'm looking at the directions there.
Does it operate properly with both letters as drive h:?

by waynerinke

I do believe it is required to set it as a guest drive, this is only required on an external drive. This tupe of drive properly idendtified itself without installing the setup disc on at least 10 other installions and identified itself correctly from the win 98-2 disc. The drive was working correctly and still works buts does not identify itself correctly. The only thing changed on the system was a second drive added to the primary channel. this drive is the primary drive on the secondday channel. the cable or jumpers have not been changed and I am still using the identical os

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