Floppy
Posted: Mon 24 October, 2005 Filed under: Geeky, Thoughts 2 Comments »Out of interest, why do we still need to use floppy discs for driver installs and the like? The CD drive works fine, so I could use that. A USB stick would work fine too – but no, the Windows installer insists that the drivers be on a floppy in drive A: – no other options exist. Why?
It just seems like such an archaic thing to have – and it’s a pain, too. I don’t see the point in having an up-to-date latest-tech box that still needs a floppy drive. Up ’til this weekend I haven’t used a floppy in years – with the one exception of the server installs at CrapCo, which had the same thing, they needed a driver installed for the RAID stuff. And that’s it – the floppy drive will never be used again. Everything either gets burned onto a CD (or even a DVD now) or saved on the USB stick.
So – what’s the use of having a floppy drive, other than putting in these one-off drivers?
I haven’t had or used a floppy drive this centuary. I’m suprised anyone still includes drivers on them. I would use that as a sign to get other hardware.
I agree. However, it’s pretty much up-to-date – but I think the problem is that I went with SATA drives instead of IDE. Apparently the SATA ones need some kind of driver, which comes on floppy. Fuck only knows why, but there we go.
And I’m not the only one to have this problem – but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating.