[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

[Gabriel ilardi]

Hi Jim,

In rev. 22764 the floppy works.

In 22765, trying to access the floppy will fail, from cmd it says invalid drive, meanwhile
trying to access it 
from the run dialog you'll get an ERROR_GE_FAILURE A device attached to the system is
not functioning.This happened with the old filesystem recogniser driver, but in rev. 26266
a new one has been introduced. With this one the problem is that
trying to access the floppy will lead you to:

Assertion '!(DiskByteOffset % DriveInfo->DiskGeometry.BytesPerSector)' failed
at
drivers\storage\floppy\readwrite.c line 369

See bug 2289 for some details.

Regards,

gabriel_it.


>   Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:35:58 -0500
>  From: jimtabor.rosdev(a)gmail.com
>  To: ros-dev(a)reactos.org
>  Subject: [ros-dev] [RE:]  ReactOS 0.3.4 Hardware Support
>  
>  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
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[James Tabor]

Hi!
Thanks! Okay!

http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2287

I've should have search for the bug report.

Thanks,
James

On 10/21/07, Gabriel ilardi <gabrielilardi(a)hotmail.it> wrote:
>   Hi Jim,
>
>  In rev. 22764 the floppy works.
>
>  In 22765, trying to access the floppy will fail, from cmd it says invalid
>  drive, meanwhile trying to access it
>  from the run dialog you'll get an ERROR_GE_FAILURE A device attached to the
>  system is not functioning.
>  This happened with the old filesystem recogniser driver, but in rev. 26266 a
>  new one has been introduced. With this one the problem is that
>  trying to access the floppy will lead you to:
>
>  Assertion '!(DiskByteOffset % DriveInfo->DiskGeometry.BytesPerSector)'
>  failed at
>  drivers\storage\floppy\readwrite.c line 369
>
>  See bug 2289 for some details.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  gabriel_it.
>

[David Johnson]

Is floppy disk necessary ?
On Oct 21, 2007, at 4:26 PM, James Tabor wrote:

>   Hi!
>  Thanks! Okay!
>
>  http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2287
>
>  I've should have search for the bug report.
>
>  Thanks,
>  James
>
>  On 10/21/07, Gabriel ilardi <gabrielilardi(a)hotmail.it> wrote:
> >   Hi Jim,
> >
> >  In rev. 22764 the floppy works.
> >
> >  In 22765, trying to access the floppy will fail, from cmd it says  
> >  invalid
> >  drive, meanwhile trying to access it
> >  from the run dialog you'll get an ERROR_GE_FAILURE A device  
> >  attached to the
> >  system is not functioning.
> >  This happened with the old filesystem recogniser driver, but in  
> >  rev. 26266 a
> >  new one has been introduced. With this one the problem is that
> >  trying to access the floppy will lead you to:
> >
> >  Assertion '!(DiskByteOffset % DriveInfo- 
> > >  DiskGeometry.BytesPerSector)' 
> >  failed
> > at
> >  drivers\storage\floppy\readwrite.c line 369
> >
> >  See bug 2289 for some details.
> >
> >  Regards,
> >
> >  gabriel_it.
> >  
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[James Tabor]

David Johnson wrote:
>   Is floppy disk necessary ?
>  On Oct 21, 2007, at 4:26 PM, James Tabor wrote:
>   
That is a good question. ATM when setup detects a problem with installing the
MBR, it will ask you to insert a floppy and make a boot disk. That does happen
on my test system since I have Linux on hda3 and M$ secondary partition on
hda2.

So~ I do not know!
James

[David Johnson]

Most would say that floppy disk are on the way out of hardware  
design. But backwards compatibility will dictate a floppy disk to be  
at-least available. So I answered my own question.
BTW.. You are all doing awesome work.
On Oct 21, 2007, at 10:18 PM, James Tabor wrote:

>   David Johnson wrote:
> >   Is floppy disk necessary ?
> >  On Oct 21, 2007, at 4:26 PM, James Tabor wrote:
> >  
>  That is a good question. ATM when setup detects a problem with  
>  installing the
>  MBR, it will ask you to insert a floppy and make a boot disk. That  
>  does happen
>  on my test system since I have Linux on hda3 and M$ secondary  
>  partition on
>  hda2.
>
>  So~ I do not know!
>  James
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