Re: Bug report: 1.7.19 broke floppy drive access

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On May 19 15:28, Sean Gugler wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I've discovered that 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drive access became broken
> as of Cygwin1.dll version 1.7.19-1 (2013-06-05 01:07:23).  I reported
> this back in October, but perhaps the message never got through. The
> problem persists with the latest version.
> 
> I tested by updating all my packages to current as of 2014-05-07, then
> simply swapping cygwin1.dll with older versions.
> 
> cygwin1.dll 1.7.29-1 (2014-02-09 13:07:01 - LATEST)
> 
> $ dd if=/dev/fd1 of=./junk count=1
> dd: opening `/dev/fd1': Bad address
> 
> cygwin1.dll 1.7.19-1 (2013-06-05 01:07:23)
> 
> $ dd if=/dev/fd1 of=./junk count=1
> dd: opening `/dev/fd1': Bad address
> 
> cygwin1.dll 1.7.18-1 (2013-04-19 01:40:41)
> 
> $ dd if=/dev/fd1 of=./junk count=1
> 1+0 records in
> 1+0 records out
> 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 2.83143 s, 0.2 kB/s

Thanks for the report.  When removing the code which was supposedly
only affecting Windows 2000 and earlier, I didn't notice that this
code path is still required for floppy drives.  I don't own a floppy
drive for ages :}

This should be fixed in CVS.  Please give the Cygwin DLL from today's
snapshot on http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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