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 <
boneal@cornerstonehome.com> 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 <bob.elzer@gmail.com> 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 <bob.elzer@gmail.com> 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, <stevensspam@cox.net> 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
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