Re: The plight of the humble floppy disk

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From: Hunter1
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:22

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Richard Rudek wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 07:55:08 +0800, Hunter1 <hunter1@arach.net.au>
> wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>>The floppy truly is dead, the last time I had to use a 
>>floppy was when we could not get this old beast to boot from 
>>CD no matter what we did, and the old beast unfortunately 
>>had some important data on it that we needed to ghost. (The 
>>other alternative was to move the HDD to another PC, but the 
>>floppy was easier)
>>
>>It's a legacy tool, not much else. Memory sticks and CD's 
>>have replaced it with a vengeance.
> 
> 
> So you guys don't use any of that new fangled hardware, that upon
> installing or repairing Windows XP, you have press the F6 key and load
> the drivers from A: ? ... ;\ 
> 
> Happened last Friday, Adaptec SCSI RAID 320, mirrored. Went through two
> disks until I found a good one. PITA. :(


Actually you got me on that one, couple of times setting up 
servers we've needed to use the old floppy drive to install 
the drivers for the SCSI controllers etc.

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