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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:17:04 -0700
Subject: Re: Random Lockups with DR-DOS 7.03
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On 15 Jun 2004 at 20:44, Paul O. BARTLETT wrote:

> > >     HOWEVER, this afternoon, I took GUEST.EXE, the Iomega ZIPdrive
> > > driver, out of AUTOEXEC.BAT, and for the length of time I was
> > > working I had no lockups.  Then I started GUEST.EXE (it can load
> > > from the command line or AUTOEXEC.BAT), and after some time I had
> > > another lockup.  [...]
> >
> > Actually, you can do without guest.exe. You need to load the right
> > combo of the drivers it calls, with the right options. As a bonus,
> > it'll use less memory.
> 
>     But if I want to use the ZIPdrive, I presume I need a driver for
> it, and GUEST.EXE is what I found at Iomega's website.
> 
> > It's been a *long* time, so I don't recall the steps I had to go
> > thru to get my old Zip drive working without Guest. But it was worth
> > it.
> 
>     If you do recall, I would be very interested. :-)  How one gets it
> to work without a driver I can't imagine.

Guest is intended for *temporary* installs. For permanent you run the 
INSTALL program. Which installs SCSIDRVR.SYS and some other files.


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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
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