PPAOS2.ADD

Parallel Port-attached ZIP 100, ZIP+, and ZIP 250 driver

This driver supports daisy chaining, up to a total of five drives. The connections must be CPU -> ZIP Plus/250 -> ZIP Plus/250-> ZIP (original), which MUST be last. Note that ZIP Plus terminator MUST BE OFF unless it is the LAST drive in the chain. If a ZIP (original) is the last drive, then the ZIP Plus termintor MUST BE OFF. BASEDEV=PPAOS2.ADD

Parameters

 * /V Verbose Output
 * /PORT:# # = Parallel port address (i.e. 378, 278, 3bc)

MULTIPLE PARALLEL PORT DRIVES Each driver instance supports ONLY one parallel port. To install TWO instances, you MUST specify the /PORT: parameter on at least one driver statement to get to the LPT2 port; for example: basedev=ppaos2.add /port:378 basedev=ppaos2.add /port:278

Limitations
OS/2 versions that use LVM for managing hard file space exhibit several pecularities working with ZIP drives.


 * 1) Even though media is inserted at boot time, a drive letter may not be assigned. To force the assignment of a driver letter, double click on the "Refresh Removable Media" object. If that fails, eject the media, re-insert, and double click on the "Refresh Removable Media" object.
 * 2) LVM may report the ZIP drive as corrupted. You can still create a volume.
 * 3) Do NOT do an LVM "Commit Changes" with ZIP media that already contains data inserted. The data may be lost.