INSTRUCTIONS ON INSTALLING A ZIP DRIVE
ON A PCI PARALLEL PORT IN WINDOWS NT

Question:
I have a Lava Parallel PCI card and I am trying
to attach an IOMega Zip drive. What should I do
to get it to install?

Answer:
The IOMega Zip drive cannot install on the initial
address range that the Lava Parallel PCI is
assigned to. When the IOMega Zip drive is attached
to the Lava Parallel PCI it can install on one the
following I/O address ranges.

  0378 - 037F
  0278 - 027F

It is necesary to verify which I/O address your
OnBoard parallel port is assigned to before
changing the Lava Parallel PCI's address range.
If the OnBoard parallel port is set to
0378 - 037F (default setting) then the Lava Parallel
PCI must set to 0278 - 027F or 0288 - 028F.
Do this with the following method:

1) Go to Start|Settings|Control Panel|LavaPorts
Open up Lava Parallel Ports.

2) Enter the properties for the Lava Parallel PCI.  

3) IMPORTANT!!!!
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CHANGE THE ADDRESS UNTIL YOU
HAVE VERIFIED THE PORT IS NOT ON BUS 1 OR HIGHER.
SEE KNOWN ISSUES WITH SOME COMPUTERS AND LEGACY
ADDRESSES (278 or 378) BELOW.

Change the Input/Output range to the appropriate
Input/Output Range by choosing it from
the drop-down list.

4) Click Ok and then Ok again and reboot NT4.0.

5) Run the setup program provided by IOmega
and it should find the IOMega ZIP drive and assign
it a drive letter.

KNOWN ISSUES WITH LAVA PARALLEL PCI AND ZIP DRIVE

Sometimes when switching the Lava Parallel PCI to
0278 - 027F it knocks out some sound cards. It is
necessary to reinstall the OnBoard Parallel Port
as the 3bc port from  the BIOS setup and modify
the Lava Parallel PCI as the 0378 - 037F port.
(Follow the instructions above).

KNOWN ISSUES WITH SOME COMPUTERS AND
LEGACY ADDRESSES (278 or 378)

Due to limitations of the PCI architecture, some
computers will not address changes to legacy addresses
like 278 or 378. Not all computers will have this
issue. Only computers that have the PCI slots on
PCI bus 1 or higher will have this issue. The symptom
will be that after you assign the port the address
you will not be able to boot into NT4.0. You will
have a system crash on boot up. 

To verify if our card is on bus 1 or higher
follow the following steps.

1) Go to Start|Programs|Administrative Tools|Event Viewer

2) Look for the message for detectlava
and double-click it.

3) IF it states that it detected the Lava
Parallel PCI in BUS 0x01 or higher then do not 
attempt to change the Lava Parallel PCI's address range.

If you have already changed the address of the
Lava Parallel PCI and you are having the above behaviour
then the following will put the Lava Parallel PCI
back to the default address.

To set the Lava Parallel PCI back to default:

1) Boot into NT4.0 without the card installed

2)Go to start run type 

  regedit 

and click ok.

3)Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\
Services\DetectLava\UserSetings

Remove the subkey (folder) in here by deleting
it (NOT THE UserSetings KEY!!).

4) Shut down and place the card back into the PCI slot.

5) Boot back into NT4.0.