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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:36 pm

I have a iomega zip drive 100mb and i like to know if there any free programs out there that will get it to work on my ibm xt. It a parallel port zip drive. I found one drive but it lets you use it for 7 minutes. I downloaded the one off of iomega web site but it won't work on a ibm xt since itdon't have any upper memory. When i did have it working with that on driver the computer read all of 100mb of the disk. So i hope there a free driver out there that will work. Hope someone can help me. Thanks for the help.

Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 8:19 pm

You'll either need to have an EMS card and the fakehi driver that maps some EMS into XMS, then do some loadhigh-ing of the driver, OR use PC DOS 7(or 2000) which maps certain portions of video memory into UMBs.

Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 594 Location: Western NC

I also got the one from IOMEGA (for DOS) and I was able to use it on a Compaq Portable II (286) and it also only had 640K. You sometimes have to fool around with the settings in the "guest.exe" program to get it to identify the LPT port correctly...

Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 2

i did play around with guest but no luck.

Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 20 Location: Gurnee, IL, USA

I've heard elsewhere (where, I can't remember exactly) that the iomega DOS program for parallel zip is not compatible with 808x CPUs.

Does this also mean V20? I have no idea.

Joined: 23 Oct 2004 Posts: 11 Location: Anaheim, CA, USA

Try this:
http://www.palmzip.de/

Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 2

i tryed that one. it's good for 7 minutes then you have to buy it.

Joined: 12 Feb 2005 Posts: 7

gwb21471 wrote:

i tryed that one. it's good for 7 minutes then you have to buy it.

try to find the earliest zip driver.
i bought the iomega parellel zip in the winter of that year they began to sell it . the guest.exe came with the zip works very well in my XT( clone not the XT actually ). Its version is 4.01

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:06 am

guest.exe ver 4.01
take about 26k conventional memory
and have nothing to do with the upper memory
and nothing to do with the CPU ( it works in my 8088 , and P4 as well)

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:35 pm

I have a registered copy of PalmZip. It's worth the registration fee.

I use it on a PCjr.

Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Netherlands

-remove pls- wrong answer..

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:24 pm

Jorg wrote:

-remove pls- wrong answer..

do you mean the message posted on Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:35 pm(which about the PCjr) is wrong?

Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Netherlands

ehm?

No I made a remark about the zip driver that was incorrect, I found out later.

If anyone could post or link the guest 4.01 I'd be happy...

Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Netherlands

Here is an old driver:

http://download.iomega.com/english/dosdrvr.exe

Interesting from readme:

* Compatible versions of DOS include MS-DOS version 5.0
or higher

Joined: 12 Feb 2005 Posts: 7

Jorg wrote:

If anyone could post or link the guest 4.01 I'd be happy...

guest 4.01 :
http://www.geocities.com/ldalchun/zip.html?1133950657828
ibm PC compatible and MS dos 4.0 needed as stated in the guesthelp.txt