trouble with zip drive, please help

[tweakage]

here's the deal. I just put together a pretty nice system, including the following components:

Abit BH7 motherboard
P4 2.4b cpu
WD Caviar 40GB Hard drive
512MB Kingston KVR PC2100 DDR
Asus V7100 Pro AGP 4x 64MB
Lite-On 52x CD-ROM Drive
250MB Internal Iomega Zip
floppy drive

Here's how i have it setup. The hard drive and zip drive are setup as Primary master/slave. HD is master of course. CD-ROM is secondary master, with no slave. Everything works well normally, but yesterday when I inserted the 250MB zip media, the screen went black and i had to reboot. The zip does work ok most of the time, but it just seems to be causing instability.

Most of the systems i have built have not included an internal zip drive, so my question is, would you recommend an alternative way to connect the drive? As a general rule I have never been an advocate of putting anything but Hard Disks together on the same ATA 100 cable. Should i be using a separate controller for the zip?
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks all.

tweakage

[Peter M]

IDE is not SCSI. Putting very fast drives onto the same cable as very old and slow ones (like HDD and Zip) is Not A Good Idea At All.
Make the Zip the CDRW's slave. That'll be a lot more likely to work.

[tweakage]

i'll give that a try and see how it works. Can the zip drive be a slave on an ATA33 type cd-rom cable? I always thought it would need to be on an ATA100 cable. i'll let you know how it works out.