Is the Expansion drawer useful?

[Kim_Lemon]

I've never had any use of the Expansion drawer. Regardless of how many drivers I've installed, none of them have ever suggested me to put anything in it.

This made me curious, so I read the Workbench 3.0 user's guide:

"The Expansion drawer is used to store software drivers for additional hardware devices that you install on your Amiga. If a hardware device uses the Expansion drawer, it is explained in the documentation packaged with that product. To activate the new Expansion device, drag the icon for the device's software driver into the Expansion drawer and then reboot your system to make the device available"

Do you find the Expansion drawer useful or pointless?

[Waccoon]

Seperating system and user drivers was a brilliant design choice that would've made the lives of many Windows and Mac users a lot easier.

Naturally, nobody used it properly.

[AmigaMance]

It's not useful or maybe just not popular. Afaik, it's there mostly for backwards compatibility with the OS1.3. In the newer OS it was substituted by the drawers in the DEVS: directory.

[Azryl]

Some of the GVP scsi devices use the Expansion drawer. Not only older devices but also the newer A1200 models.

Just because it was never a very popular software destination for device drivers and hardware suppliers doesnt mean it isnt needed or never used.

Leave it, its part of the official Amiga OS design

Az