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Ken Blake, MVP
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:55:20 -0800, Donald L McDaniel
<orthocross@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >> 1) My Intel motherboard will not allow the use of on-board floppies (so says the
> >> builder at Pacific Solutions, Inc. in Portland, OR.) Unless, of course, she was
> >> lying to me.
> >
> >
> >I don't know whether that's true or not, but I do know that *most*
> >motherboards support floppies without a problem. To verify what she
> >said, just look at the motherboard (or its documentation) to see if
> >there's a connector for a floppy cable.\
>
> Well, I did want a floppy in, but she said they put one in, and it failed to
> work, so she concluded that floppies were a no-go for my particular motherboard.
> Now that my machine is home, the warranty is now in effect. She claims that my
> warranty does not allow me to open the case,
UGH! I would never choose to buy a computer where the warranty forbids
me to open the case.
> or I would put one in and see for
> myself. Since my brother paid for this machine, he refuses to allow me to open
> the case till the warranty is run out (about a year).
Understood. If it's his machine, it's his choice.
> However, I do know that there is a floppy connector on the motherboard.
If there's a floppy connector on the motherboard. clearly the
motherboard supports floppies. If your system builder couldn't make it
work, that would seem to say something about her system building
skills.
> >> 2) NO need to install SATA driver in my machine. Vista has one for my on-board
> >> controller OOB.
> >
> >
> >
> >OK, but SATA drivers were just an example. Needs for floppies
> >sometimes come up. Those needs are certainly rare, but for many people
> >they are not non-existent. Some people may occasionally want to boot
> >to an MS-DOS diskette, for example.
>
> I haven't had such a need since I switched from 9x to XP. With Vista, I have no
> such need. It simply no longer exists (at least, it doesn't exist for me. I'm
> sure it exists for many others.)
As I said (quoted below) I can't remember the last time I needed one
either. If it were expensive, I would do without one. My point is only
that considering how cheap it is, I want it just in case some need I
haven't thought of comes up.
> >Although I can't remember the last time I used my floppy drive, I am
> >much more comfortable having it there just on case. It cost me next to
> >nothing, and, as I said, I'll have one in my next computer too.
>
> I would also be much more comfortable with one there.
Now I'm confused. I thought you *didn't* want one, and were arguing
against having one.
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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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<orthocross@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >> 1) My Intel motherboard will not allow the use of on-board floppies (so says the
> >> builder at Pacific Solutions, Inc. in Portland, OR.) Unless, of course, she was
> >> lying to me.
> >
> >
> >I don't know whether that's true or not, but I do know that *most*
> >motherboards support floppies without a problem. To verify what she
> >said, just look at the motherboard (or its documentation) to see if
> >there's a connector for a floppy cable.\
>
> Well, I did want a floppy in, but she said they put one in, and it failed to
> work, so she concluded that floppies were a no-go for my particular motherboard.
> Now that my machine is home, the warranty is now in effect. She claims that my
> warranty does not allow me to open the case,
UGH! I would never choose to buy a computer where the warranty forbids
me to open the case.
> or I would put one in and see for
> myself. Since my brother paid for this machine, he refuses to allow me to open
> the case till the warranty is run out (about a year).
Understood. If it's his machine, it's his choice.
> However, I do know that there is a floppy connector on the motherboard.
If there's a floppy connector on the motherboard. clearly the
motherboard supports floppies. If your system builder couldn't make it
work, that would seem to say something about her system building
skills.
> >> 2) NO need to install SATA driver in my machine. Vista has one for my on-board
> >> controller OOB.
> >
> >
> >
> >OK, but SATA drivers were just an example. Needs for floppies
> >sometimes come up. Those needs are certainly rare, but for many people
> >they are not non-existent. Some people may occasionally want to boot
> >to an MS-DOS diskette, for example.
>
> I haven't had such a need since I switched from 9x to XP. With Vista, I have no
> such need. It simply no longer exists (at least, it doesn't exist for me. I'm
> sure it exists for many others.)
As I said (quoted below) I can't remember the last time I needed one
either. If it were expensive, I would do without one. My point is only
that considering how cheap it is, I want it just in case some need I
haven't thought of comes up.
> >Although I can't remember the last time I used my floppy drive, I am
> >much more comfortable having it there just on case. It cost me next to
> >nothing, and, as I said, I'll have one in my next computer too.
>
> I would also be much more comfortable with one there.
Now I'm confused. I thought you *didn't* want one, and were arguing
against having one.
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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