Hardware compatability

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Lori A. Kuiper

I have a floppy drive that I want to use on an XP Professional SP2 PC. The
box says Windows 2000 or NT, but the manufacturer says it is fully
compatible with XP. When I connect the drive, it does work in XP.

If the drive was not compatible wouln't XP give me some type of message or
just not install it? I am worried that it won't be compatible with power
management features. All it says in device manager is Generic floppy drive.
It doesn't say ACPI floppy disk drive.
 
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I have a floppy drive that I want to use on an XP Professional SP2
PC. The box says Windows 2000 or NT, but the manufacturer says it is
fully compatible with XP. When I connect the drive, it does work in
XP.
If the drive was not compatible wouln't XP give me some type of
message or just not install it? I am worried that it won't be
compatible with power management features. All it says in device
manager is Generic floppy drive. It doesn't say ACPI floppy disk
drive.
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Floppy drives are pretty basic and probably don't interact with ACPI at all.
Mine, a rather nice one and new just about a month ago, says that it's just
a plain old floppy drive too. If it wasn't compatible then you'd have seen
errors. As it's working then you've nothing to worry about.

Galen
 
Check the BIOS for floppy settings.


|I have a floppy drive that I want to use on an XP
Professional SP2 PC. The
| box says Windows 2000 or NT, but the manufacturer says it
is fully
| compatible with XP. When I connect the drive, it does
work in XP.
|
| If the drive was not compatible wouln't XP give me some
type of message or
| just not install it? I am worried that it won't be
compatible with power
| management features. All it says in device manager is
Generic floppy drive.
| It doesn't say ACPI floppy disk drive.
|
|
 
Bios just has enable or disable settings for floppy drive & controller.
What else should I be looking for? My motherboard is an NF7-S v2.0 1 year
old.
 
Not every hardware device maker will "pay" so as to be able to have the
Windows XP compatible logo. If the floppy drive uses the standard floppy
drive controller (FDC), then it will work in XP. Floppy drive technology
has not changed too much since NT.
 
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