From: "Rich Gauszka" 

The XP F6 only asked for a floppy. I found instructions for creating a
slipstreamed install CD with SATA drivers but that was more work than I
wanted to do at the time.  I just never knew that Microsoft limited the F6
USB floppy drives to a select few. The strange part was that when using the
F6 option the install needs to read the drivers off the floppy twice and
with an 'unapproved' floppy the install manages the first read but can't
find the drive on the second read


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