(Excerpts from a message dated 11-28-99, Andy Roberts to All)

Hu Andy--

AR>I need specific info for the exact URL and file names to get drivers
  >for OS/2 for:

AR>Iomega Internal SCSI ZIP drive

AR>Syquest SparQ1.0 parallel drive

AR>I'm trying to find those for Linda Proulx, before I send her a CD of
  >OS/2 ShareWare and other OS/2 apps.

    I can't tell you anything about the SparQ drive, because I've never
seen one.  I am running two parallel-port ZIP-100s, one on each of the
two Warp 4 systems here, with the driver I got from of the Device Driver
Pak CD-ROM that came with Warp 4.

    From INDEX.HTM, look under Miscellaneous Storage Support -> Iomega.
You will find a list of Iomega drive products.  Irrespective of which
one you click on, you will get a pointer to download the same
self-extracting file: IOMG_OS2.EXE, that contains the drivers for the
listed Iomega drives, including both the parallel-port and SCSI versions
of the ZIP-100.  (This 1996 file was too early for the ZIP-250.  I would
assume that if you followed the same track on the on-line IBM DDPAK, you
would get a more modern version of IOMG_OS2.EXE that would include the
ZIP-250.)  Incidentally, some of the instructions in the documentation
didn't work for my drives, but that is to be expected from on-line
documentation :-(.

    If I check (on the CD-ROM) Miscellaneous Storage Support -> SyQuest
Technology, Inc., I am not shown any entries for the SparQ drives, but
that CD-ROM is too early.  Each entry listed states that the drivers
"shipped with the product" have been tested for Warp 3 and Warp 4, but
doesn't show any drivers as available for download.  The ddpak gives two
Inet addresses for SyQuest: www.syquest.com and ftp.syquest.com.  Take
your pick :-).

AR>After several hours of searching the net, this is what I have
  >accumulated:
....remainder deleted

    You have just given another excellent example of why trying to find
anything on the Web drives me up the wall, particularly trying to find
technical information by using the available search engines.  I suggest
that you forget the search engines and go directly to
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/index.htm and follow the path
through Miscellaneous Storage Support.  If the device you are interested
in is not listed, this indicates that there is a very high probability
(although not certainty) that no OS/2 driver for that device exists.

    Incidentally, I find WebEx (I'm using the version that came with
Warp 4) much easier to use (and, apparently, faster) than Netscape/2 for
downloading files from http sources.

    Hope this helps,

        --Murray

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