Can you Zip250 an IDE drive letter A: (assuming you are not floppy?) [scsi drivers] [floppy drive]
Q: Can you use an IDE Zip250 drive letter A: (assuming you are not floppy?)
Problem when I Win2000 install SCSI drivers installed during installation (in this case the Promise Ultra100 specific), it requires that I was in a floppy for drivers.
What should I do if I no floppy drive?
Can my Zip250 A: if there is another solution?
Re:<< Can't you just specify another path, in this case wherever the drivers are located? >>
No.
The prompt says put your driver disk in drive Re: and press a key when ready.
It doesn't ask you where the drivers are, it tells you to put in your driver disk.
Apperntly you can build an Answer File (aka Automated Install Script) that lets you specify where the drivers are…but that seems like a lot of work just because my rig doesn't have a floppy drive in it.
I think I'll keep my floppy drive and Intel can just suck it.
Re:<< Can't you just specify another path, in this case wherever the drivers are located? >>
Not in Win2k/XP setup. Only way to get the driver in there is to put in a floppy disk.
Re:My internal LS-120 is on Primary Master and it shows up as Re: in Win2K, but I think it has to do w/ bios support for it in the boot menue.
Re:<< Problem is when I install Win2000 and install SCSI drivers during setup (in this case the Promise Ultra100 specifically), it requires that I put in a floppy for drivers. >>
Can't you just specify another path, in this case wherever the drivers are located?
Re:<< What do I do if I have no floppy drive? >>
You're out of luck I think. I tried something similar with an LS120 a while ago and couldn't get it to fly. My solution was to leave the case open and attach a floppy without mounting it for the initial setup.
Re:if i remember right ,
the drive letter is A if you boot from the zip disk
.. dont take my word for it though, – i havent had the internal zip drive in a long time. try it out.
Re:<< Ah, true. My mistake. Having never owned a zip drive I just assumed it was on the floppy cable >>
Nope it's IDE, says so right in the topic title 
guy: yeah…I'm pretty sure that would work, but I'm talking about from the BIOS, or during Win2000 setup at least…not after Win2000 is installed.
Re:Hmm…this doesn't work for me, but since you don't have a floppy drive on drive letter a:
on the command line in Win2K, or dos for that matter:
<<
Associates a path with a drive letter.
SUBST [drive1: [drive2:]path]
SUBST drive1: /D
drive1: Specifies a virtual drive to which you want to assign a path.
[drive2:]path Specifies a physical drive and path you want to assign to
a virtual drive.
/D Deletes a substituted (virtual) drive.
Type SUBST with no parameters to display a list of current virtual drives.
>>
subst a: z:\
Re:Ah, true. My mistake. Having never owned a zip drive I just assumed it was on the floppy cable although I have no clue why I thought that
If it's not on floppy, I'm not sure how to make it drive Re:
silver
Re:no. i think the letters A and B are designated for devices on the floppy controller only.
Re:I thought that the only thing that set apart potential floppy drives Re: and B: was where it sits on the floppy cable. The one on the end is for A and the middle one is B. I think you can also switch the floppy letters in the BIOS too so I think that means there is no difference between the two.
Have you tried hooking it up like it was a floppy and trying it? It would be a good experiment.
silver
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