JSI Tip 1120. Do I have an IDE or ATAPI Zip drive installed?

Jerold Schulman

March 4, 1999

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To determine wether your Zip drive is IDE or ATAPI, use regedt32 to browse to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEHARDWAREDEVICEMAPScsiScsiPort0ScsiBus0Target ID nLogical Unit ID 0

Where the Target ID n is 1 or 2 for devices on a primary EIDE channel and 3 or 4 for devices on a secondary EIDE channel.

Inspect the Identifier value which contains manufacturer, model number, and firmware revision.

The firmware revision for an ATAPI drive has a trailing letter (IOMEGA ZIP 100 23.D)
while the IDE drive has a leading letter (IOMEGA ZIP 100 B.29).

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