[AccessD] OT: I'm old

The answer for Windoze XP is a resounding "No" I suspect. Could be wrong of course, but I'm sitting in front of a machine that does have a floppy drive (though I've never used it for anything), and the 'Change Drive Letter and Paths' dialog does not offer me drive A or B to choose from. That's probably because having a floppy, which is A, drive B is reserved for when you do something like

Copy a:*.* b:

Which will result in A having a schizophrenic interlude.

I just checked this out by disabling the floppy drive in the BIOS. After rebooting, a peek ad the drive management screen reveals...

Roll of drums...

A and B are still not available. So MS has just decided that floppy drives are an essential legacy support item. :-)

Lambert


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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 1:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: I'm old

LOL.  And that does bring up an interesting question.  If machines don't have floppies at a: and B:
any more, could we move the CD drives to there?  For ages I have routinely moved them to J, K and L just to get them up out of the way, but I now install a floppy drive just as long as required to load my raid drivers, then uninstall them again.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com