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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cameron Dorey who wrote (43422)	1/14/1998 11:28:00 AM
From: d-fndr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Cameron: I had the same experience w/ my IDE Zip that I obviously overpaid for ($97)<ggg> through ONSALE. Mine didn't even come with the cable. If I recall correctly, I hooked it up on the CD-ROM cable, booted the machine and, voilla, the drive was working and reading my disks. No software to install; couldn't have been easier. (Oh yeah, I had to go to the local computer store to buy an installation kit and faceplate; I think it was $6.) It's been working great since before Christmas--and a lot faster than the parallel port version.

To: Cameron Dorey who wrote (43422)	1/14/1998 4:45:00 PM
From: Leo J. Capobianco, DO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

Cam, My experience with the Surplus Direct IDE Zip was excellent like you. No frills. Works well. No complaints here.

To: Cameron Dorey who wrote (43422)	1/15/1998 1:08:00 AM
From: tom tollefson	Respond to of 58324

Bootable Zip This message is being written and posted on a computer that has only 1 drive, an IDE Zip. (It's a non-atapi purchased online from an auction site) The computer is booting, running Windows 95, AOL 3.0 for Win95 and Internet Explorer 3.02 all from a single Zip disk. The Windows 95 operating system is the original OEM version that uses less than 50meg of disk space. The OS and all of the software needed to login to this board and post this message were in my pocket a few minutes ago. The hard drive, 3 1/2 inch floppy and CD-ROM have been removed and are all sitting on the desk. The drivers for all of the hardware in this computer are installed on the Zip Disk, the screen looks exactly the same as booting from the hard drive. The Zip is now the C: drive. The original IDE Zip is not supposed to be bootable, but it is! The next time my hard drive dies I will still be able to connect to the net, email and do business online while the dead & new drives are in transit. The last time my hard drive died it took more than a half day to install all of my "stuff" on the new drive. Making the IDE Zip the bootable C: drive should work great for a network PC, boot Win95 from the Zip and run all storage hog applications over the network. Will NT workstation fit on a Zip disk? Sunday evening I first posted (MF) about booting from an IDE ZIP(non-atapi). It was discovered by accident while testing a dead hard drive. Since then I have tested many variations and know how it happens....but I still don't why it happens. I can now give an exact sequence of events that will make it happen. Would someone with an IDE Zip please try this on another computer? There are many knowledgeable members of this board that could sure check this out. If you think this can't work, you are probably technically skilled enough to try. To spare this board all of the technical details please email me and I will send a detailed list of how to make it boot. The big question is, how many bios versions will boot a non-atapi Zip? Tom Tollefson p.s. This was also posted to MF