CD and Zipp drives not recognized

[teruy]

Would appreciate any advice here. Running WinXP and service pack 2.
My Zipp drive and cd drive have been working intermittently for a long
time but now they are not working at all. Cant get Windows to
recognize hardware. Tried plugging cables in again but no help. Dont
know what to try next.
Any suggestions??
Tom

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: <[email protected]>

| Would appreciate any advice here. Running WinXP and service pack 2.
| My Zipp drive and cd drive have been working intermittently for a long
| time but now they are not working at all. Cant get Windows to
| recognize hardware. Tried plugging cables in again but no help. Dont
| know what to try next.
| Any suggestions??
| Tom

Reinstall IDE drivers. That is assuming the CD and ZIP drives are IDE.
You left out the important facts !

 

[teruy]

Thanks for the reply. Looks like I have an atap/IDE Zip drive. I
installed the latest driver from the Iomega site but it didnt help.
Still not recognized. Now I'm trying to figure out what kind of CD
drive I have and where to find any driver. Any ideas??
Tom

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: <[email protected]>

| Thanks for the reply. Looks like I have an atap/IDE Zip drive. I
| installed the latest driver from the Iomega site but it didnt help.
| Still not recognized. Now I'm trying to figure out what kind of CD
| drive I have and where to find any driver. Any ideas??
| Tom
|


No. That's the wrong driver.

The motherboard (or paddle card) has an IDE/ATAPI/EIDE interfcae/controller. It uses a
chip-set driver. Those items connected to this interface should be detected when that is
properly installed. An IDE CDROM (or DVD) and an IDE ZIP drive should be recognized by the
WinXP OS w/o third party drivers once the IDE drivers are properly installed. Look in the
Device Maghaer.

On this older ASUS motherboard, I see I have the; Intel 82371AB/EB Bus Mater IDE
Controller.

Thus I would use Intel drivers associated with 82371 chip-set family.