On 10/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Well I guess as long as it can boot from a SATA drive that would be OK.<br><br>What's to go next, the floppy port?<br><br>I have some mobos where the only way to upgrade the BIOS is via floppy.</blockquote><div><br>Thankfully, that's becoming less and less necessary. You can often use a boot CD to do a BIOS upgrade, and many modern motherboards can use a USB flash drive for BIOS upgrades. The only thing keeping floppy interfaces on motherboards these days is Windows XP, which can only get third-party storage drivers from a floppy.
<br><br>Carl Fongheiser<br></div><br></div><br>