Raid drivers are either injected onto install media or added via floppy This has not changed til vista/server 2008 On 4/3/09, Bryan O'Neal wrote: >>And XP/2k3 can only take drivers from floppy > What? Last time I had to use a floppy for drivers was 1999! I managed > hundreds of XP desktops and dozens of Win2003 server and never used a floppy > for a driver. One of my 2003 servers did not even have a CD/DVD drive. > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:39 AM > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box? > > Sadly it is still the only way to get some drivers > > And XP/2k3 can only take drivers from floppy > > > On 4/3/09, Bob Elzer wrote: >> What's a floppy ??? LOL >> >> Do they still make those ? >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of >> Stephen >> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 7:19 AM >> To: Main PLUG discussion list >> Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box? >> >> This works well but behaves weirdly with ext3 floppies >> >> >> >> On 4/3/09, Bob Elzer wrote: >>> FYI if you like, you can have the full drive use ext3. >>> >>> Using ext2ifs will let windows access your ext3/ext2 drive >>> >>> http://www.fs-driver.org/ >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of >>> Alan Dayley >>> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:16 PM >>> To: Main PLUG discussion list >>> Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box? >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:46 PM, wrote: >>>> I have been debating recently whether to pick up a cheapish >>>> networked external hard drive like a Western Digital My Book (that >>>> one initially because it can be picked up locally, although >>>> initially googling suggests it might not be very Linux friendly). >>>> Anyone >>> >>> We have a 1TB My Book that works just fine on Linux. Purchased it a >>> few months ago. I partitioned it half ext3, half FAT32 so we can use >>> it easily for different things. (For example, copying files from >>> ext3 to FAT32 causes permission settings to be lost so I want the >>> ext3 on the external drive >>> too.) >>> >>> Hate the name, "My Book" but it is working well for us so far. >>> >>> Alan >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> -- >> Sent from my mobile device >> >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Sent from my mobile device A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss