[hohum]

I haven't been able to spot any info on this, but will/does the Vista setup support installing RAID drivers from usb flash drives or CDROM, etc? I seriously hope they don't place a dependancy on using a floppy drive like 2000/XP does, it's downright irritating. I'd never use a floppy drive for anything else anyway.

Any ideas?

[Rasta Monsta]

The RTM version will support USB as a RAID driver source.

rasta

[Judas]

.... they really should make a CD read setup.... allowing you to please insert cd now.... let it look through and find raid related drivers on it.... and then when it loads them.... to have it ask to please reinsert the windows installation disc....

it's been done before.. do it now

Floppies disappearing.... same as with old ports.... and hopefully a SATA CD/DVD drives start appearing....

[No_Style]

Originally Posted by Judas

Floppies disappearing.... same as with old ports.... and hopefully a SATA CD/DVD drives start appearing....

If the rumours of Intel's ICH8 chipset are true, then more of them will start appearing.

I'm still using floppies though. For BIOS flashes and Ghost boot CDs.. I could get away without them though.

I'm glad Vista will allow multiple sources.

[Judas]

what's appearing? floppies or sata optical drives?

Nearly every new machine sitting on the shelf in most of the computer stores around here don't have any printer ports...... and absalutely no ps/2 nor serial ports at all... theres actually 2 machines with no floppy drive.

Even notebook/laptop computers... a good number of them, have only usb ports to connect printers and mice/keyboards or other devices..... no old printers ports/serial ports/ps/2 ports. all gone bye bye....

midi ports... are hard to even come by

[No_Style]

Originally Posted by Judas

what's appearing? floppies or sata optical drives?

Optical, obviously. An SATA floppy would rank quite high on the "Unneeded implementation" scale.

[CDsDontBurn]

lol....you guys are funny

the SATA optical drives have been appearing ever so slowly. two of my friends already have a Plextor SATA DVD-RW drive. i forget which model specifically, but i can ask them. i do know though, that they both got it from newegg. so you can search newegg if you'd like to find it yourself

EDIT:
oh yea.....i also just got my hands on the latest version of vista. i think i'll use that for my next format.

[No_Style]

Originally Posted by CDsDontBurn

lol....you guys are funny

the SATA optical drives have been appearing ever so slowly. two of my friends already have a Plextor SATA DVD-RW drive. i forget which model specifically, but i can ask them. i do know though, that they both got it from newegg. so you can search newegg if you'd like to find it yourself

EDIT:
oh yea.....i also just got my hands on the latest version of vista. i think i'll use that for my next format.

I know they exist. I even said that more would appear if somebody like Intel phased out ATA support. Unfortunately, they don't exist in wide varieties. The Plextor you speak of is inferior compared to their IDE counterparts. I could have gotten one as well, but after seeing how an IDE one is cheaper and performs just as well or better... There's no point.

Let us know how it's like living in Vista 24/7. Gaming experiences etc.. etc..

[Rasta Monsta]

Whatever you do, DON'T try to dual-boot, and think XP will survive in one piece. . .it won't. Bootloader, config.sys, power profiles, UGH. It's ugly.

rasta

[CDsDontBurn]

i wouldn't be using a dual boot anyways. whenever i have one set up, i tend to just use one OS over the other(s)