Spanners, as usual a sensible answer!
Yeah I can drop the files on to the hard drive but I would rather like to keep the Zip drive, it is such a goood device.
Actually, its in an ISA slot but I have two others. And the Motherboard is a Super P6SBA.
I have 4 PCI's and three ISA's. Do you think a change on to one of the other slots might help? Its certainly a thought. Now I come to think of it one of the slots is an unused Parallel card for a scanner. Could that be taking the very IRQ I want? Oh, bloody computers, one day you think you know what are doing the next day - dumbo!
Anyway Spanners, your thoughts will be appreciated.