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 (ie 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.

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.

LVM may report the ZIP drive as corrupted. You can still create a volume.

Do NOT do an LVM "Commit Changes" with ZIP media that already contains data inserted. The data may be lost.

Platform Support:
OS/2 2.x	OS/2 3.0	OS/2 4.0	OS/2 4.5x
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