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Date:	Tue, 20 May 2014 16:41:14 -0700
From:	Sean Gugler <gugler-sean AT cs DOT yale DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: Bug report: 1.7.19 broke floppy drive access
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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,
>Corinna
>
>--
>Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
>Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Red Hat


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