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Thread ID: 110365 2010-06-14 02:40:00 How brand-specific are floppy drives? annie (6010) Press F1
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1109957 2010-06-14 03:49:00 About a month ago I saw in DSE, floppy drives selling for $5 (Manager's special). Bryan (147)
1109958 2010-06-14 04:02:00 The only thing you need to worry about is that some brand-name PCs like to take the front of the drive off and use a specially designed case front panel instead. Agent_24 (57)
1109959 2010-06-14 05:35:00 The Dell 9200 system shipped with a single hard drive running under RAID as a non-RAID hard drive. I want to install another drive and reload XP and change the BIOS from 'RAID ON' to 'RAID AUTODETECT/SATA', and run both disks as non-RAID.


Nah all you need to do is update the motherboard BIOS. You do that and you don't need a driver. Like I said, ancient ones needed drivers. It has an old BIOS.
pctek (84)
1109960 2010-06-14 05:56:00 Nup, this is a Dell motherboard. The latest bios update for it is August 2007 to tart up networking using Gigabit hardware. I have the one before that. From what I read on the Dell forums you can either have the SATA or RAID options on your disk controller thing on the motherboard, but not both.

Thanks though
annie (6010)
1109961 2010-06-14 06:00:00 Last year I bought a USB floppy from DSE. Only needed it to check out a box of old bits and pieces. Scouse (83)
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