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"b p" wrote in message ... | On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:16:25 GMT, "Frank" wrote: | | | | | 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. |
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 07:31:06 GMT, "Frank" wrote:
"b p" wrote in message .. . | On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:16:25 GMT, "Frank" wrote: | | | | | 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 |
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jaeger wrote:
In article , says... The stupidest thing I?ve heard of are those Abit mobos without serial and PS2. 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. |
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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. jaeger wrote: In article , says... Adding 3rd party hard disk drivers or raid drivers during setup You can add the drivers to a custom WinXP CD. In fact, this is the smart way to do it since you can add all your drivers, plus you can set the switches so that you don't have to babysit the install. System recovery using partition magic, nortons, others. Partition Magic will recover from the install CD. Ghost is crap unless you do enterprise deployment, but the image disc itself is bootable. |
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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. jaeger wrote: In article , says... Thats crap, he's on about the fact the college Desktop only had a floppy drive free so he could transfer his data.. Thats the relevance.. No, it is not relevant to compare what is probably an obsolete machine to one being built today from new parts. |
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.... only to find it corrupt.
It's happened to me... thank god my prof understood. NoRemorse wrote: "bp" wrote in message ... On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:17:56 GMT, jaeger wrote: In article , says... Copying a paper (five minutes from the deadline) from my laptop to a school computer, so I can print it out. Did I miss the part where the original poster was building a laptop? here try this Copying a paper (five minutes from the deadline) from my PC to a school computer, so I can print it out. Don't forget running from the dorm to the computer lab holding onto the floppy as if your life depended on it. |
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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. Dodgy wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:38:01 -0400, "Roger Zoul" waffled on about something: bp wrote: :: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:17:56 GMT, jaeger wrote: :: ::: In article , ::: says... ::: :::: Copying a paper (five minutes from the deadline) from my laptop to :::: a school computer, so I can print it out. ::: ::: Did I miss the part where the original poster was building a laptop? :: :: here try this :: :: Copying a paper (five minutes from the deadline) from my PC to a :: school computer, so I can print it out. USB thumbdrive... Unless you happen to be working with NT 4... -- MUSHROOMS ARE THE OPIATE OF THE MOOSES |
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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. Ben Pope wrote: NoRemorse wrote: Copying a paper (five minutes from the deadline) from my laptop to a school computer, so I can print it out. Quicker over a network. If you or your school is not connected, shame on you/them. Ben |
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What?? Double copies on the same floppy?? You've still got a single
point of failure! NoRemorse wrote: "Ben Pope" wrote in message ... NoRemorse wrote: sarcasmReally? No way./sarcasm Well I apologise for insulting your intelligence. Thank you. Apology accepted. Yes, I did say that. "Hooking up to the network in labs is tricky. (I've obtained a connection once out of several tries with the same DNS and IP settings.)" And let me clarify something. I would have to specifically go out of my way to a public area (usually that's another building) to hook up my laptop to the school's network and then email it to myself and then go back to the computer lab with the printer and retrieve the email and print it. Well I'm unclear of the exact situation and the order in which you would do things and where you would be at the time. Clearly we have our wires crossed. Yeah I agree. LOL. Oh I have no problems with FTP. You're quoting me out of context. That sentence read "Five minutes from the deadline, I won't fiddle with any software that will most likely fail (Murphy's law)." You missed the "five minutes" part and "Murphy's law" I believe they change the meaning of that sentence. Things generally fail exactly when you need them most. It's hardly like floppies are immune to such failure. I don't believe I was quoting you out of context. True. Floppies are terrible when it comes to reliability. I usually work around that by making several copies of the same file on the same floppy. The FTP implementation in Explorer is really bad, BTW. IE has problems with slow or lagging FTP servers. I've never had any major problems with it, although I prefer dedicated ftp programs for anything more complicated than a small file or two. Yeah it's perfect for simple transfer. I'd never entrust it with anything big, however. |
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