External Zip Drives

[seasider52]

I recently bought a P111 and have a scanner and printer daisy-chained out of it.
It has worked away happy as Larry over the past few weeks handling everything we threw its way, wheather it was scanning , printing etc.

We are involved in a school project at present and had scanner a lot of images onto the hard drive.
I decided it was time to store these on to my external zip drive.
No problem I thought, disconnect scanner ( with printer daisy chained), link up zip , reboot and I'm away. Low and behold when computer rebooted it did not pick up zip drive. It is connected through the parallel port, which up to recently had the scanner/ printer attached)

So I insert flopy with WIN 98 iomega drives on it and it starts up . All is well until it goes to assign the zip drive a new letter, when it just shuts off and the computer still has not picked up the fact that I now have a new device on board.

I then disconnect the printer from back of scanner, connect the zip drive to rear of scanner and attach scanner to computer.
Eventually the machine identifies the zip
When I go to transfer any images from hard drive to zip all is well for about twenty seconds when the whole thing freezes.
This has happened loads of times.

Why does the computer see the zip when I attach through the scanner and not when it is attached independently.

I guess I am having problems trying to send data from computer to zip through scanner port.

How can I get teh computer to recognise the zip on its own,

My instinct tells me that I need to go into the bios??

Any thoughts

Thanks for all your help

 

[edfair]

You have no control over what extra loads might be placed on line drivers coming out of the computer. How about removing printer and scanner for the duration of the backup? Ed Fair
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