[ros-dev] [RE:] ReactOS 0.3.4 Hardware Support

[James Tabor]

Hi!
What was the revision for the floppy driver that made it inoperative?
You told me on IRC. I did not take my notes to work.

>   Hello,
>
>  I think that 0.3.4 should have most hardware regressions (floppy and
>  vga) fixed. I know I'm not the one to say this but, we are already
>  closer to this goal than we were with 0.3.3. Fixing the floppy
>  regression should only involve finding the spot in which floppy is not
>  reporting correctly to ntoskrnl. I did some tests on this issue and it
>  fails on line 596-598 of ntoskrnl\io\iomgr\volume.c and floppy was never
>  mounted as the status reported was STATUS_IO_DEVICE_ERROR from line
>  1017-1021 in drivers\storage\floppy\floppy.c. I don't know much about
>  the vga regression but I'd think that it may only require a few days
>  work to find and fix the issue. We already have SATA support included
>  with trunk (uniata.sys) and SCSI is also working now.
>
>  -aicommander
>  
Thanks,
James