Hi,
I have a 386 computer that has been thrown together out of a bushel basket. I am trying to get either an internal or external zip drive working. I have a combination HDD/FDD/serial/parallel/game card installed right now that is running a 5.25 floppy, a 3.5 floppy, a WDAC2200 hard drive, a microsoft mouse, and a Thrustmaster joystick. I just bought and installed a Creative Labs Omni 2X CD drive that is running off of a Sound Blaster 16 card. All of that works just great under DOS 6.2. I will probably install Windows 3.1 in the future. I have several internal 100MB zip drives that I have tried one by one hooking into the IDE port on the controller card. I set the HDD to master and the zip to slave. Everything goes haywire, from dead controller issues to non-booting issues. Don't ask why, but I really want to run a zip drive on this thing. Should I try SCSI, or as a last resort, a parallel version of zip? Or should I try something else for the internal zip? The controller card is a PM520 if that helps. It is supposed to run 2 IDE devices. I have successfully installed a parallel 100mb zip on my 486. Could my computer be too old for zip drives? I am at a loss right now.
Thanks,
I have a 386 computer that has been thrown together out of a bushel basket. I am trying to get either an internal or external zip drive working. I have a combination HDD/FDD/serial/parallel/game card installed right now that is running a 5.25 floppy, a 3.5 floppy, a WDAC2200 hard drive, a microsoft mouse, and a Thrustmaster joystick. I just bought and installed a Creative Labs Omni 2X CD drive that is running off of a Sound Blaster 16 card. All of that works just great under DOS 6.2. I will probably install Windows 3.1 in the future. I have several internal 100MB zip drives that I have tried one by one hooking into the IDE port on the controller card. I set the HDD to master and the zip to slave. Everything goes haywire, from dead controller issues to non-booting issues. Don't ask why, but I really want to run a zip drive on this thing. Should I try SCSI, or as a last resort, a parallel version of zip? Or should I try something else for the internal zip? The controller card is a PM520 if that helps. It is supposed to run 2 IDE devices. I have successfully installed a parallel 100mb zip on my 486. Could my computer be too old for zip drives? I am at a loss right now.
Thanks,