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Grymblayd
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This post is in regard to the recent NTFS.ORG news item concerning Dell's phasing out of floppy drives.
Just as a note, about six months ago I asked a Dell Tech when he thought we would stop using floppies and he said never!
That was his opinion and it disagreed with mine ( never ..come on ).
Today I finally went into hardware Raid0 and this is actually where this post will come together ...please bear with me.
First , I installed the PCI controller and then the HDDs.
Next I install the WinXP CD ( all this according to the little "manual " inclluded with the controller card)
I press f6 to install the Raid controller ....during this time set-up files are being loaded. I am then instructed to type "S" to install from disk the drivers for the card. Here began my dillema...
The disk was a CD and the only unchangeable option to install from was A: ( the floppy drive) .
I had to cancel out of set-up and use my WIN98 Boot disk( MY PRECIOUS !!!)
to copy the folder from the CD to a floppy. Finally I was able to load the drivers.
If I had one of Dell's new Floppyless PCs I would have been up the proverbial creek without a means of propulsion.
When I configured the array I opted for clusters of 128kb and I am thinking now I should have done 64kb, being that when I encounter "smaller" files than 128 the array doesn't actual do anything. Any opinions on this ?
Grym ( and appreciating the "oldest" thing in my pc) blayd
Just as a note, about six months ago I asked a Dell Tech when he thought we would stop using floppies and he said never!
That was his opinion and it disagreed with mine ( never ..come on ).
Today I finally went into hardware Raid0 and this is actually where this post will come together ...please bear with me.
First , I installed the PCI controller and then the HDDs.
Next I install the WinXP CD ( all this according to the little "manual " inclluded with the controller card)
I press f6 to install the Raid controller ....during this time set-up files are being loaded. I am then instructed to type "S" to install from disk the drivers for the card. Here began my dillema...
The disk was a CD and the only unchangeable option to install from was A: ( the floppy drive) .
I had to cancel out of set-up and use my WIN98 Boot disk( MY PRECIOUS !!!)
to copy the folder from the CD to a floppy. Finally I was able to load the drivers.
If I had one of Dell's new Floppyless PCs I would have been up the proverbial creek without a means of propulsion.
When I configured the array I opted for clusters of 128kb and I am thinking now I should have done 64kb, being that when I encounter "smaller" files than 128 the array doesn't actual do anything. Any opinions on this ?
Grym ( and appreciating the "oldest" thing in my pc) blayd