2 Jun
2011
2 Jun
'11
4:34 p.m.
You can also check out http://www.hackchina.com/en/r/101589/fdc.htm__html as an HTML
reference.
The nice thing about FDC is that it even uses ACPI, so it's a good test point for
that.
Then you can import flpydisk and get rid of the current NT4-based floppy.sys
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Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
On 2011-06-02, at 11:53 AM, Cameron Gutman wrote:
With all my respect to the hard work put into
this, I want to express my concerns:
How did I know this was coming? ;)
Why is there a need to develop a half-done fdc, if there is a full, working, tested by
millions driver available even in old DDKs, which we can use without violating its
license?
Why waste time writing that driver from scratch now when we could just import DDK's
one and spend time fixing our PnP manager instead, and other involved components so that
DDK's driver actually works?
As far as I know, the only floppy related DDK
driver is sfloppy.sys. If that is wrong, I would be happy to import a better fdc.sys and
scrap this one.
Again, with all my respect to Cameron, he does a
great job, but when he disappears next time for a year or two, who is going to finish FDC?
Or any other of his half-finished branches? (each being really a pearl if it's done).
aicom-hardware-fun can be deleted because somebody is finally working on usb.
tcp-rewrite-branch was merged to the GSoC project. The only incomplete branch is
aicom-network-branch which has Alex's new Winsock code in it (which only a few bugs
prevent from being fully functional).
I would really suggest using all available
resources first and only then spend time developing our own stuff instead of already
existing.
I did this thing in one (long) night because I was bored. It's not
like I spent a month doing it. I know people say "Who cares about floppy
support?" and I agree but it has to be done at some point to be compatible with
XP/Vista/7.
Thanks for understanding,
Aleksey.
Regards,
Cameron
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