Zip Drive fails on transfer

[PuzzleD]

Hey all.. i am having some trouble with a computer i have. The computer has a zip drive in it that freezes the computer up when transfering files to it. Any file larger than 10mb causes it to freeze when displaying 5 seconds left.. i have watched the light on the drive and it does not seem to be transfering the data. On this computer there is also a cdrw and a dvd and a 60gb hd. I have switched all devices to different setting's .. ie primary master to primary slave and so on with secondary's. I can successfully burn an entire cd and watch dvd's just fine. I have reinstalled Win ME system on this computer with no luck also. I have tested two different zip drives on this computer and these drives do work on other systems. Any ideas out there of what else i should try to get this to work. I believe i do have DMA enabled.. would this have any effect on a zip drive .. i wouldnt think so. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

[JonmaTifa]

are you using window's removable disk driver or an iomega driver for the drive specifically? that would be something to look into

[rangeral]

Maybe something running in the background is not compatable with this process, disable all apps see if that makes a difference even screensavers as well.

[rummy]

Which motherboard are you using?
I've been having the same trouble as you, on some Iwill KK266's.

http://www.iomega.com/datahandler/se...base=steerdown

Iomega has a beta patch for slow performance/hang with 686B motherboards, I'm getting ready to try it out, I'll report back.
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UPDATE!!!
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Sorry, it turns out that the Iomega patch is just an older VIA Bus Master driver, ver. 3.01.1

I've been choosing to NOT install the VIA ATAPI driver when I run the 4in1 driver install program, due to reading that some folks believe the standard MS drivers do a better job. Well, it seems that the VIA driver will fix the Zip drive problem. I still wonder if you have a VIA chipset mobo?