Floppy Controller vs Driver

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Hi
My computer is windowsXp. I went to control panel-->system-->device
manager
and I have found this 2 entry:
[+] Floppy disk controller
[+] Floppy disk drivers

when I opened there 2 entries (clicked on the [+]
I have found these :

[+] Floppy disk controller
standard Floppy disk controller
[+] Floppy disk drivers
Floppy disk driver

My question what is the differen between controller and driver??

Another entry I have found is this
[+] IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
Primary IDE Channel
Secondry IDE Channel
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller

My question is this, since I have only one Hard drive , which I
supppose it is the primary when I have another 2 entries..the secondry
and what is the 3rd one "ViA Bus Master IDE Controller"

Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

 

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Howdy!

"esara" <esara123@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
> My computer is windowsXp. I went to control panel-->system-->device
> manager
> and I have found this 2 entry:
> [+] Floppy disk controller
> [+] Floppy disk drivers

I'd proff read that. All the American copies have "Floppy disk
drives" not "drivers" there.

>
> when I opened there 2 entries (clicked on the [+]
> I have found these :
>
> [+] Floppy disk controller
> standard Floppy disk controller
> [+] Floppy disk drivers
> Floppy disk driver
>
> My question what is the differen between controller and driver??

A driver would be the software, a controller the hardware.

But, again, every copy I've seen has the "drive" or "drives", not
"driver". The DRIVE is the thing you put the floppy disk in.

>
> Another entry I have found is this
> [+] IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
> Primary IDE Channel
> Secondry IDE Channel
> VIA Bus Master IDE Controller
>
> My question is this, since I have only one Hard drive , which I
> supppose it is the primary when I have another 2 entries..the secondry
> and what is the 3rd one "ViA Bus Master IDE Controller"

Err - you have two channels, or motherboard connections, and both
are "daughters" of the VIA Bus Master IDE controller.

Think of having a right and left speaker, and they're both part of
the stereo system.

Your hard disk is probably master on the primary controller - the CD
or DVD drive is probably master on the secondary controller.

>
> Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

RwP

 

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esara wrote:
> Hi
> My computer is windowsXp. I went to control panel-->system-->device
> manager
> and I have found this 2 entry:
> [+] Floppy disk controller
> [+] Floppy disk drivers
>
> when I opened there 2 entries (clicked on the [+]
> I have found these :
>
> [+] Floppy disk controller
> standard Floppy disk controller
> [+] Floppy disk drivers
> Floppy disk driver
>
> My question what is the differen between controller and driver??
>
> Another entry I have found is this
> [+] IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
> Primary IDE Channel
> Secondry IDE Channel
> VIA Bus Master IDE Controller
>
> My question is this, since I have only one Hard drive , which I
> supppose it is the primary when I have another 2 entries..the secondry
> and what is the 3rd one "ViA Bus Master IDE Controller"
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
Much of it is the CONTROLLER CHIPS on the mainboard, and their 'drivers'
in the BIOS program. Your mainboard has VIA north bridge, and VIA South
Bridge chips that support the CPU.

 

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My guess would be is that the "floppy disk driver" is something for a
specialty FDD (a mass-storage floppy drive) or an external, or maybe
something to read memory-cards using a floppy adapter. I really dont know
though to be honest.

Everything else is normal though.

--Don


"Ralph Wade Phillips" <ralphp@techie.com> wrote in message
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> Howdy!
>
> "esara" <esara123@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:fd7d27e7.0404151147.a74510f@posting.google.com...
> > Hi
> > My computer is windowsXp. I went to control panel-->system-->device
> > manager
> > and I have found this 2 entry:
> > [+] Floppy disk controller
> > [+] Floppy disk drivers
>
> I'd proff read that. All the American copies have "Floppy disk
> drives" not "drivers" there.
>
> >
> > when I opened there 2 entries (clicked on the [+]
> > I have found these :
> >
> > [+] Floppy disk controller
> > standard Floppy disk controller
> > [+] Floppy disk drivers
> > Floppy disk driver
> >
> > My question what is the differen between controller and driver??
>
> A driver would be the software, a controller the hardware.
>
> But, again, every copy I've seen has the "drive" or "drives", not
> "driver". The DRIVE is the thing you put the floppy disk in.
>
> >
> > Another entry I have found is this
> > [+] IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
> > Primary IDE Channel
> > Secondry IDE Channel
> > VIA Bus Master IDE Controller
> >
> > My question is this, since I have only one Hard drive , which I
> > supppose it is the primary when I have another 2 entries..the secondry
> > and what is the 3rd one "ViA Bus Master IDE Controller"
>
> Err - you have two channels, or motherboard connections, and both
> are "daughters" of the VIA Bus Master IDE controller.
>
> Think of having a right and left speaker, and they're both part of
> the stereo system.
>
> Your hard disk is probably master on the primary controller - the
CD
> or DVD drive is probably master on the secondary controller.
>
> >
> > Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
>
> RwP
>
>

 

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On 15 Apr 2004 12:47:46 -0700, esara123@hotmail.com (esara) wrote:

>Hi
>My computer is windowsXp. I went to control panel-->system-->device
>manager
>and I have found this 2 entry:
>[+] Floppy disk controller
>[+] Floppy disk drivers
>
>when I opened there 2 entries (clicked on the [+]
>I have found these :
>
>[+] Floppy disk controller
> standard Floppy disk controller
>[+] Floppy disk drivers
> Floppy disk driver
>
>My question what is the differen between controller and driver??
>

Mine says drive.

Controller is the chip on the board than interfaces betwenn the
computer architecture (usually on the PSI or ISA bus (yes ISA, it is
there, but not as the user accessable slot of yore).

The drive is the drive itself.

>Another entry I have found is this
>[+] IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
> Primary IDE Channel
> Secondry IDE Channel
> VIA Bus Master IDE Controller
>
>My question is this, since I have only one Hard drive , which I
>supppose it is the primary when I have another 2 entries..the secondry
>and what is the 3rd one "ViA Bus Master IDE Controller"
>
>Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.


You normally have two IDE controllers. Your HDD connects to the
primary, the optical drive typically to the secondary.

The VIA controller is a driver over one or both harware controller.

 

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Some floppy drives like the Superdisk drive or the LS120 drive could
read a floppy or a larger superdisk, which was a flash drive. These
probably need a driver. Then there is also a Japanese version.

>Hi
>My computer is windowsXp. I went to control panel-->system-->device
>manager
>and I have found this 2 entry:
>[+] Floppy disk controller
>[+] Floppy disk drivers
>
>when I opened there 2 entries (clicked on the [+]
>I have found these :
>
>[+] Floppy disk controller
> standard Floppy disk controller
>[+] Floppy disk drivers
> Floppy disk driver
>
>My question what is the differen between controller and driver??
>
>Another entry I have found is this
>[+] IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
> Primary IDE Channel
> Secondry IDE Channel
> VIA Bus Master IDE Controller
>
>My question is this, since I have only one Hard drive , which I
>supppose it is the primary when I have another 2 entries..the secondry
>and what is the 3rd one "ViA Bus Master IDE Controller"
>
>Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.