From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Bug report: 1.7.19 broke floppy drive access
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 11:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140521081223.GA24532@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <537BE81A.2070909@cs.yale.edu>
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On May 20 16:41, Sean Gugler wrote:
> Confirmed fixed, Corinna. Awesome! Thank you!
> ~ Sean
>
> On Tue, 20 May 2014 12:39:20 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >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 for your feedback.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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2014-05-20 0:28 ` Sean Gugler
2014-05-20 17:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-20 23:54 ` Sean Gugler
2014-05-21 11:24 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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