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Date:	Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:02:21 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: BOOTOS2 problem (& Zip Drive)

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George wrote:

> I suspect that BOOTOS2 left something out of the config.sys file it created
> but I have absolutely no idea what.

Peter's advice on investigating this makes sense to me.

I like to keep the Config.Sys of my maintenance partition as much in lockstep
with the one in my production partition as is practical, which facillitates doing
comparisons. [Always make sure you have a backup of the current Config.Sys,
*before* you allow any new s/w install to change it !] This might be made easier
by using one of the "Config.Sys database" applets. (Tyra 2 ? I think there
are-- or at least were -- others.) I never went that way, since my ancient DOS
word processor has a nifty synchronized file comparison feature which makes this
quite easy. A similar function is built into the add-on JFC util. for the ZTREE
file mgr., but it doesn't provide for editing of what you see.

You never told us which model of the Par. Port Zip you are using, or which s/w
drives it. This can make a difference. I'm still using the PP Zip-100, with
Iomega's old OAD s/w. It has worked out well for me, but won't work with the PP
Zip-250. I recently picked up one of these cheap on Ebay, to have as a backup,
since my Zip-100 now has about half a million miles on it. It is said to work
with some beta drivers from the IBM DD-Pak site. (Won't be able to test that
until later this week.) My main concern there is that I think these drivers
require the Zip be treated as a non-removeable drive, mounted as such from the
time you boot Warp until you shut down. That flies in the face of the way I use
the Zip: in super-floppy mode, regularly shuttling between Zip disks, over the
course of Warp typically running for days and sometimes weeks between reboots.
Bummer, if I can't do that any more with the later drive. Can any PP Zip-250
user confirm or disconfirm this ?

Jordan

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