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Why would you want to boot off a floppy disk? Now why not boot off a much more reliable, faster device in the CF card? It gives you a much higher level of security when doing some more precarious things, such as BIOS flashes and Firmware updates.Isaac
Didn't know you wanted to boot off a card reader. Why would you
want to do that? Just curious.
--Just because XP has a driver built in does not mean that no driverAs someone already said, on XP no drivers needed. I think I have
seen the Datafab reader (Which is supposed to be identical to the
Lexar, I just didn't know about it before xmas) for ~$20. Having
the firewire ports available for other peripherals is a nice extra
as well.
is used. It is still a driver, and thus the device can not be used
outside of the Operating System (for example, to boot from). Also,
trying to find Linux drivers for some of these devices can be a bit
of a chore, if possible at all. With an IDE CF reader, this is not
an issue, as it will appear as a standard IDE storage device.
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Full Frame user!
EOS 3 + Nikon Coolscan III
I boot from CD if my OS crashes. 700mb of storage for fixit utils,
etc. I don't care to tie up the money for a bootable CF card, when
I can boot from a $.39 CD/R disk.
As for Linux, who needs it. Might as well just buy a CP/M machine,
for all the usefullness a Linux machine would provide to me. ME.
Some may find it usefull, but I doubt it's a big selling point with
the majority of folks in this forum. Until Linux can run the
software I have, and the graphics card I have, with all the other
hardware I have, I'll stick to XP. I've never found myself saying
"Gee, XP won't do so-and-so, I guess I need Linux". I get my fill
of Unix all day long with Solaris. So far, we have yet to buy a
GUI tool that actually works as advertised, and we've spent
hundreds of thousands of $$$ on them.
If you like text based tools (which I do), or GUI tools that don't
work well (which I don't)(Mac OS X excepted, of course), get Unix
Otherwise, I'll take BGOS (Bill Gates OS) over Linux/Unix any time.
Ted (Solaris Admin)
Email sent Isaac, put me down for one!Keiron- I'm putting my order through for one. If you want, I'll
order one for you, and then we can split the postage cost. Email me
if you're interested! (And anyone else in the UK that wants one.
More the merrier!)
Isaac
