From: /m 



Can't you use a CD-ROM to install those drivers instead of a floppy drive?

  /m


On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:02:01 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>Silly me - I figured that if the motherboard supported USB floppy drives
>that any would work - Found out the hard way I was wrong when I tried to
>install an AHCI driver with an unsupported USB floppy. The bad part is I was
>able to do the initial F6 install with the USB floppy but the second time
>during the install that XP needed to load the drives it couldn't see the
>floppy. Luckily I had an older USB floppy in the closet that was supported
>
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/916196
>
>This issue occurs if the USB floppy disk drive is not supported for use
>during Windows XP installation. To be supported in this situation, the drive
>must be listed in the Txtsetup.sif file.
>
>The following USB floppy disk drives are included in the Txtsetup.sif file
>and are therefore supported for use during Windows XP installation:
>
>Plug and Play ID  USB floppy disk drive model
>
>USB\VID_03EE&PID_6901  Mitsumi
>USB\VID_057B&PID_0000  Y-E Data; Sony part number 09K9835
>USB\VID_0644&PID_0000  TEAC; IBM option part number 27L4226, FRU 05K9283
>
>The following USB floppy disk drives are not included in the Txtsetup.sif
>file and therefore are not supported during Windows XP installation:
>
>Plug and Play ID  USB floppy disk drive model
>
>USB\VID_03F0 &PID_2001  HP
>USB\VID_054C &PID_002C  Sony
>USB\VID_057B &PID_0001  Y-E Data
>USB\VID_0409 &PID_0040  NEC
>USB\VID_0424 &PID_0FDC  SMSC
>

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