Re: Zip Drives & all that malarkey

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Alex Hudson wrote:

> 
>  The only thing I can really suggest is that you try
> the Zip drive on someone else's machine. 

 Mmmm. The drive is a replacement from Iomega, however I will try it on
my flatmate`s box, just to see if I can get it running (his machine also
has a zip which functions fine).

> If it's not the drive (which, after all the stuff you've done,
> looks unlikely), then it's probably a port on your computer, I'm afraid.

 Boo. Almost every component in my main machine is new, including the
mobo..so if the worse comes to the worse, I can swap that out.

> You
> might want to try getting another parallel cable & borrow a friends computer
> and try running PLIP or something - that should help confirm things?


 Dunno about that, isn`t PLIP a pain to setup? Do you know of any
programs that could test the port other than that?

 Cheers!
 
 Baz.
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