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Floppy Controller vs Driver
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My computer is windowsXp. I went to control panel--system--device manager and I have found this 2 entry: [+] Floppy disk controller [+] Floppy disk drivers when I opened there 2 entries (clicked on the [+] I have found these : [+] Floppy disk controller standard Floppy disk controller [+] Floppy disk drivers Floppy disk driver My question what is the differen between controller and driver?? Another entry I have found is this [+] IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers Primary IDE Channel Secondry IDE Channel VIA Bus Master IDE Controller My question is this, since I have only one Hard drive , which I supppose it is the primary when I have another 2 entries..the secondry and what is the 3rd one "ViA Bus Master IDE Controller" Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks. |
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esara wrote:
Hi My computer is windowsXp. I went to control panel--system--device manager and I have found this 2 entry: [+] Floppy disk controller [+] Floppy disk drivers when I opened there 2 entries (clicked on the [+] I have found these : [+] Floppy disk controller standard Floppy disk controller [+] Floppy disk drivers Floppy disk driver My question what is the differen between controller and driver?? Another entry I have found is this [+] IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers Primary IDE Channel Secondry IDE Channel VIA Bus Master IDE Controller My question is this, since I have only one Hard drive , which I supppose it is the primary when I have another 2 entries..the secondry and what is the 3rd one "ViA Bus Master IDE Controller" Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks. Much of it is the CONTROLLER CHIPS on the mainboard, and their 'drivers' in the BIOS program. Your mainboard has VIA north bridge, and VIA South Bridge chips that support the CPU. |
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Howdy!
"esara" wrote in message m... Hi My computer is windowsXp. I went to control panel--system--device manager and I have found this 2 entry: [+] Floppy disk controller [+] Floppy disk drivers I'd proff read that. All the American copies have "Floppy disk drives" not "drivers" there. when I opened there 2 entries (clicked on the [+] I have found these : [+] Floppy disk controller standard Floppy disk controller [+] Floppy disk drivers Floppy disk driver My question what is the differen between controller and driver?? A driver would be the software, a controller the hardware. But, again, every copy I've seen has the "drive" or "drives", not "driver". The DRIVE is the thing you put the floppy disk in. Another entry I have found is this [+] IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers Primary IDE Channel Secondry IDE Channel VIA Bus Master IDE Controller My question is this, since I have only one Hard drive , which I supppose it is the primary when I have another 2 entries..the secondry and what is the 3rd one "ViA Bus Master IDE Controller" Err - you have two channels, or motherboard connections, and both are "daughters" of the VIA Bus Master IDE controller. Think of having a right and left speaker, and they're both part of the stereo system. Your hard disk is probably master on the primary controller - the CD or DVD drive is probably master on the secondary controller. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks. RwP |
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My guess would be is that the "floppy disk driver" is something for a
specialty FDD (a mass-storage floppy drive) or an external, or maybe something to read memory-cards using a floppy adapter. I really dont know though to be honest. Everything else is normal though. --Don "Ralph Wade Phillips" wrote in message ... Howdy! "esara" wrote in message m... Hi My computer is windowsXp. I went to control panel--system--device manager and I have found this 2 entry: [+] Floppy disk controller [+] Floppy disk drivers I'd proff read that. All the American copies have "Floppy disk drives" not "drivers" there. when I opened there 2 entries (clicked on the [+] I have found these : [+] Floppy disk controller standard Floppy disk controller [+] Floppy disk drivers Floppy disk driver My question what is the differen between controller and driver?? A driver would be the software, a controller the hardware. But, again, every copy I've seen has the "drive" or "drives", not "driver". The DRIVE is the thing you put the floppy disk in. Another entry I have found is this [+] IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers Primary IDE Channel Secondry IDE Channel VIA Bus Master IDE Controller My question is this, since I have only one Hard drive , which I supppose it is the primary when I have another 2 entries..the secondry and what is the 3rd one "ViA Bus Master IDE Controller" Err - you have two channels, or motherboard connections, and both are "daughters" of the VIA Bus Master IDE controller. Think of having a right and left speaker, and they're both part of the stereo system. Your hard disk is probably master on the primary controller - the CD or DVD drive is probably master on the secondary controller. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks. RwP |
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Some floppy drives like the Superdisk drive or the LS120 drive could
read a floppy or a larger superdisk, which was a flash drive. These probably need a driver. Then there is also a Japanese version. Hi My computer is windowsXp. I went to control panel--system--device manager and I have found this 2 entry: [+] Floppy disk controller [+] Floppy disk drivers when I opened there 2 entries (clicked on the [+] I have found these : [+] Floppy disk controller standard Floppy disk controller [+] Floppy disk drivers Floppy disk driver My question what is the differen between controller and driver?? Another entry I have found is this [+] IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers Primary IDE Channel Secondry IDE Channel VIA Bus Master IDE Controller My question is this, since I have only one Hard drive , which I supppose it is the primary when I have another 2 entries..the secondry and what is the 3rd one "ViA Bus Master IDE Controller" Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks. |
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