XP Setup - SATA drivers missing, must have floppy, why not CD?

[Guest]

Hi everyone (especially XP developers),

I just wanted to make a general comment about the fact that windows setup
should give a user a possibility to chose the medium for the external SCSI /
SATA drivers. After pressing F6, you are provided with no options but to
provide the floppy disk. Floppies are kind of useless and "passé" nowadays
and I see them as a waste of space and money.

The other option would be to include all the possible chipset drivers...

Cheers,
m.

PS:I hope someone from Microsoft dev. team is actually going to read this.

 

[Jerry]

It is only your opinion on the usefulness of floppies.

As they usually cost around $10 it is not really a waste of money. And where
exactly is the space being wasted?

 

[Paul J. Hurley]

I think that when the original poster says a "waste of space" he means that
a slot in the cabinet is occupied by something that doesn't get used very
much any more. I rarely use my floppy drive except for BIOS backups and
the odd driver install, like when I installed my SATA hard drive.

I think the reason that setup wants to look to a floppy for drivers is that
the floppy is such a simple, old-school device that doesn't need much more
than a functioning BIOS to access it. That's not necessarily the case for
non-IDE devices.

Some of my developer buddies would like to build floppy-free machines too,
but when you have a really dead machine you'll probably have to boot from a
floppy to revive it. :-\

 

[chriske911]

masterBlaster outputte 't volgende:

Hi everyone (especially XP developers),

I just wanted to make a general comment about the fact that windows setup
should give a user a possibility to chose the medium for the external SCSI /
SATA drivers. After pressing F6, you are provided with no options but to
provide the floppy disk. Floppies are kind of useless and "passé" nowadays
and I see them as a waste of space and money.

The other option would be to include all the possible chipset drivers...

Cheers,
m.

PS:I hope someone from Microsoft dev. team is actually going to read this.

some mediacardreaders get a driveletter A or B if you assign this in
the BIOS
so you could use a SD card or whatever as bootable media or to boot the
computer from

you can hardly call a cardreader a waist of space,
especially not the types that get combined with an USB and/or Firwire
connection and even with a mini DIN jack for your headset

grtz

 

[Mike Kolitz]

The Setup team knows that this is a pain, but I wouldn't expect this to get
fixed until the next release of Windows.