2008/12/30 Martin Visser <[email protected]>: > booting). Anyway assuming that is sorted with a modern BIOS and OS then IDE > can go the way of floppies - but wait, why on earth does the Dell > motherboard need a floppy interface!! (I am pretty sure HP just doesn't ship > anything with them anymore).
I noticed this "discrepency" too - why keep the floppy when IDE is gone? Maybe because IDE is not relevant either to desktops and servers, but floppies are still used for some BIOS and driver upgrades? --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
