Building PC, to floppy or not to floppy?

[Frank]

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| >| >> Do these devices install as the A: drive?
| >
| >I have a high speed Sony USB FDD it installs as an A drive on a
| >system without a floppy. On a system with one floppy it installs
| >as B drive. There is also in my bios a choice to boot from USB
| >floppy. Other hardware I don't know about. GA-8I900 and GA-8I1000
| >are the mb's I am referencing.
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| I was afraid of that. Now I'm going to have to go and buy one.


I bought mine at mwave. Do a little research because the way things
are going there might be a little better deal somewhere else. Also
they may have upgraded this type of thing by now.

 

[b p]

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| >| >
| >| >> Do these devices install as the A: drive?
| >
| >I have a high speed Sony USB FDD it installs as an A drive on a
| >system without a floppy. On a system with one floppy it installs
| >as B drive. There is also in my bios a choice to boot from USB
| >floppy. Other hardware I don't know about. GA-8I900 and GA-8I1000
| >are the mb's I am referencing.
|
| I was afraid of that. Now I'm going to have to go and buy one.


I bought mine at mwave. Do a little research because the way things
are going there might be a little better deal somewhere else. Also
they may have upgraded this type of thing by now.

will do
thanks

 

[Kalle K.]

That was a great idea, shedding useless and archaic ports. A shame they
abandoned it.

Unless you're like me, and run several linux servers without
monitors/KBDs/Mice... A serial console (done with a null modem cable) is
the greatest thing ever.

Basically the reason they're still around are external modems (the best
kind), and serial consoles... the second of these reasons continue to be
propogated by businesses who don't feel like having VGA KVMs for every
server. And why not... graphics cards on servers are buggy, and very
problematic.

 

[Kalle K.]

If you have an IDE-raid, or SCSI configuration, you're required to press
F6 during WinXP setup, and load the custom drivers off of a Floppy.

 

[Kalle K.]

You asked us to name a situation... no stipulation was placed on what
that situation must intail. I find the same to be useful, since at my
work we're still <cringe> using nt4... when the network's out, and I
need to get some paperwork printed asap, I've used a floppy to print a
doc out in my bosses office.

 

[Kalle K.]

.... only to find it corrupt.

It's happened to me... thank god my prof understood.

 

[Kalle K.]

It's not only NT4 that you'd have to worry about... it's also the policy
restrictions that a [good] IT department might put in place.

 

[Kalle K.]

Name a school that allows filesharing between lab "workstations", or one
that doesn't VLAN-off the dorm networks. If you can name one... it
has gotten hit pretty hard over the last couple of months.

 

[Kalle K.]

What?? Double copies on the same floppy?? You've still got a single
point of failure!