Until now I haven't paid much attention to the ZIP drive discussions, but 
since Santa brought me one for my laptop my interest is suddenly piqued...
Using a PP ZIP drive with Warp Connect v3; downloaded and installed the OS/2 
drivers from IOMEGA and the drive is recognized fine.  However, to my 
surprise I find the IOTOOLS.EXE program is actually a Windows program!  I've 
gotten it to work only twice; the rest of the time it insists that there are 
no valid devices connected, despite the fact that OS/2, Win-OS/2 and OS/2-DOS 
can all see and use the drive!  This behavior persists through reboots, etc.  
I have no explanation for why I was able to get it to work twice.  Am I 
missing anything by not having use of this program?  Are there native OS/2 
programs to format, diagnose, etc. the drive?  Or DOS programs that can do 
same from an OS/2-DOS session?
Also, I'm not impressed with the ZIP Tools installation routine on the 
included ZIP disk.  It insisted on installing the GUEST.EXE program in my 
AUTOEXEC.BAT, which rendered DOS and Win-OS/2 unusable until I removed it.  
Then it sent me through interminable pages of registration forms and finally 
locked up my system hard (as in CTRL-ALT-DEL) when it tried to find my modem 
so it could (presumably) send in the registration information. Grrrr!  And it 
installed an "EJECT" program in my Win-OS/2 Startup group that also locks up 
the machine if I make the mistake of trying to use it!  I've rebooted the 
laptop more in the last 24 hours than in the last six months combined!
So...are there ways to fix/work around the ZIP Tools problems in Win-OS/2?  I 
have no native DOS partitions on the laptop, so I cannot use them from a 
native session.
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