ZIP Problems

[Ekstreme 0]

Hiya all, I have a 100 meg internal IDE zip drive, which as far as I can tell, works fine. The prob I'm having is I keep getting the following error in even viewer: "The ZipToA service failed to start due to the following error:

The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion."

 

I have dozens upon dozens of these errors in my event view, any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

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Intel PIII 450

ASUS P2B-F (BIOS 1013)

192 MB PC 100 SDRam

Diamond Viper 770 32Mb TNT2 (Det. 6.18)

Quantum Fireball CR 8.4Gb IDE HDD

Quantum Atlas II 4.5Gb SCSI HDD

Iomega 100MB internal IDE ZIP Drive

Tekram DC-310 SCSI Adapter

Panasonic CW-7502 8x4 SCSI CD-R

Mitsubishi Diamond Data 32x IDE CD Rom

Creative Sound Blaster PCI 64 (ES 1370)

Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital 3D USB Joystick

Epson Stylus Color 400 Printer

Dynalink V1456VQE-R External 56k V.90 Modem

Daewoo 710b 17" Monitor

Windows 2000 2195 SP1

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#NTCompatible on UNDERNET!!!

[mr_yellow 0]

Look under services and find the ZipToA service and set it to manual. You won't get that annoying message in your event log anymore. I never knew what It was for and never noticed the difference after I disabled it from loading.

 

Actually I don't use Iomega's ZipTools since it's mainly bloat and the basic w2k support for the external zipdrive works great(enable legacy parallel port support). But then since you've got an internal IDE zipdrive, my experience doesn't applyl. But the above suggestions do apply to the 2-3 days I did have ZipTools installed.

 

mr_yllow

 

 

 

[This message has been edited by mr_yellow (edited 15 August 2000).]

[Ekstreme 0]

Thanks mr_yellow. I was under the impression that you needed iomegaware installed to use the drive. I guess this is nonsense, so I have removed it and everythign seems to be running fine. Thanks again for ya help.