[CyberDave]

Hello all,

I'm hoping someone else has gone through this before and can help me out before I start mucking with the Extensions Manager and clean reinstalls tomorrow...

I bought a G4/500 DP a couple of months ago. I bought and installed an internal ATAPI Zip 250 drive. When I installed the drive, I also installed the latest version of the IomegaWare software that was available, 2.7.2, I believe. The drive works great. The problem is, it can only read Zip 100 disks that have been formatted by it. If they are formatted in any other drive, they won't be recognized and I'll be asked to reformat them when I insert them. (Well, I shouldn't say that, I've only tried them in a stock internal Zip 100. I haven't gotten around to trying them in my brother's USB Zip 100 or my old SCSI Zip 100 yet...tomorrow).

An any disks I format in my drive cannot be read by any other Zip drives that I have tested thus far. I installed the IomegaWare 2.8 software that was released to day, but that didn't change anything. I was going to try starting over with a clean reinstall of the Mac OS on a different partition tomorrow, or is this a futile proceedure? Anyone have any suggestions?

TIA,

Dave Corder

[WDL]

You may be experiencing the frequently reported conflict between the Iomega software
and the software Apple has put into the operating system.

Try this - go to your Extensions folder, inside the System folder - find the USB Iomega 250 extension,
click on the name and insert one space in front of the name. Close window, quit anything open,
shut down and wait a few seconds for the memory to completely clear. Start up and see how it behaves.

The insertion of the space moves the extension to the head of the line so that it gets recognized
before the Apple software can take control.

Would like to hear how you make out.

WDL

[kbardin]

Originally posted by WDL:
You may be experiencing the frequently reported conflict between the Iomega software
and the software Apple has put into the operating system.

Try this - go to your Extensions folder, inside the System folder - find the USB Iomega 250 extension,
click on the name and insert one space in front of the name. Close window, quit anything open,
shut down and wait a few seconds for the memory to completely clear. Start up and see how it behaves.

The insertion of the space moves the extension to the head of the line so that it gets recognized
before the Apple software can take control.

Would like to hear how you make out.

WDL

I have had a similar problem with an ATAPI Zip 250 drive in a G4 400, trying to recognise a PC formatted 100Mb Zip disk. I have not had problems with Macintosh formatted 100Mb disks. I'm not sure about Zip disks formatted in my drive and whether or not they work in other drives. I assumed that the Zip drive would function like any other Macintosh CD/Floppy drive in that it would automatically recognise and mount a PC formatted disk. I'll have a go at renaming the driver but any other info/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

KB