Maybe someone can explain the following situation with several Iomega drives. My quite new high-end system, running Win2K has a SCSI 2GB Iomega JAZ drive, a USB ZIP 100 drive, and an IDE 250 ZIP drive installed. The reason for the ZIP 100 is that the ZIP 250 won't read my 100 ZIP disks, regardless of what Iomega says. I installed the USB ZIP. The other drives were factory installed.
If I boot up with a disk in the 250 ZIP, there is no error message. But, if I boot up with a disk in the ZIP 100, or a cartridge in the JAZ drive, the error message below shows. This message is for the H: drive which is the JAZ, but I get a similar message for the ZIP 100. Cancelling the check by pressing any key continues the bootup with no problem.
I do not have Iomegaware installed anymore, as the last new version I upgraded to (3.0.6) crashed my system so badly that it wouldn't even bootup in safe mode. It's a good thing that Win2K can backtrack and use an earlier Registry copy, as that was the only way the system would boot. After I booted up, I totally removed all traces of Iomegaware, and cleaned the Registry of it. But, the problem below has happened since my system was new, both with and without the Iomegaware installed.
I know that Win2K uses NTFS, and the ZIPs and JAZ apparently use FAT. But the 250 ZIP doesn't produce the message, and I assume it uses FAT also.
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Checking file system on H: The type of the file system is FAT.
One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. Windows will now check the disk.
Volume Serial Number is 2D82-1B04 Windows has checked the file system and found no problem.
1998422016 bytes total disk space.
5603328 bytes in 171 folders.
732233728 bytes in 1950 files.
1260584960 bytes available on disk.
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Does anyone know of a fix for this???
By the way, the JAZ drive has given me many many serious problems other than this, and still does give me problems. Between that and the ZIP 250 not reading my ZIP 100 disks, I'm finished with Iomega. After all the Iomega stuff that I've bought over the past 10 years, this is the end. I have to say that Iomega has upped their tech support staff, and one can readily get support with almost no wait on a toll-free call. And, they replaced my JAZ drive twice, and also many disks that previous drives "destroyed." So, they are trying. But the problems still persist, and as it is said "the road to hell is paved with good intentions." But good intentions without good results don't cut the mustard with me.
Ron Hirsch
If I boot up with a disk in the 250 ZIP, there is no error message. But, if I boot up with a disk in the ZIP 100, or a cartridge in the JAZ drive, the error message below shows. This message is for the H: drive which is the JAZ, but I get a similar message for the ZIP 100. Cancelling the check by pressing any key continues the bootup with no problem.
I do not have Iomegaware installed anymore, as the last new version I upgraded to (3.0.6) crashed my system so badly that it wouldn't even bootup in safe mode. It's a good thing that Win2K can backtrack and use an earlier Registry copy, as that was the only way the system would boot. After I booted up, I totally removed all traces of Iomegaware, and cleaned the Registry of it. But, the problem below has happened since my system was new, both with and without the Iomegaware installed.
I know that Win2K uses NTFS, and the ZIPs and JAZ apparently use FAT. But the 250 ZIP doesn't produce the message, and I assume it uses FAT also.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Checking file system on H: The type of the file system is FAT.
One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. Windows will now check the disk.
Volume Serial Number is 2D82-1B04 Windows has checked the file system and found no problem.
1998422016 bytes total disk space.
5603328 bytes in 171 folders.
732233728 bytes in 1950 files.
1260584960 bytes available on disk.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Does anyone know of a fix for this???
By the way, the JAZ drive has given me many many serious problems other than this, and still does give me problems. Between that and the ZIP 250 not reading my ZIP 100 disks, I'm finished with Iomega. After all the Iomega stuff that I've bought over the past 10 years, this is the end. I have to say that Iomega has upped their tech support staff, and one can readily get support with almost no wait on a toll-free call. And, they replaced my JAZ drive twice, and also many disks that previous drives "destroyed." So, they are trying. But the problems still persist, and as it is said "the road to hell is paved with good intentions." But good intentions without good results don't cut the mustard with me.
Ron Hirsch