new SATA card install requires a floppy drive? LOL, is this still common?
 

install requires creating a floppy disc that installs the software while booting from the windows xp install CD.



daaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!

the suckiest part is i just recently threw out a floppy drive thinking that by now there's no reason to keep it around.

I have never ever heard of this. My SATA drive enclosure came with an eSATA card for boards that don't have eSATA plugs in the back of the tower. Is it for a board that has no eSATA maybe? How weird!

Yes that is normal thing for windows xp

You can't install XP onto a RAID array without a floppy, or a customized XP install disk. Sucks big time.

pretty normal even still, though XP setup shouldn't have any problem detecting a modern sata interface

"new SATA card install requires a floppy drive? LOL, is this still common?"


NO

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

But again not everyone has a DVD rom... :upsidedow

can someone tell me what the major advantage is to having RAID drive is other than mirroring?

performance, resiliency

who has floppy drives? lol