Bug report: 1.7.19 broke floppy drive access

Tue May 20 23:54:00 GMT 2014

Confirmed fixed, Corinna. Awesome! Thank you!
~ Sean
On 2014年5月20日 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年06月05日 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年05月07日, then
>> simply swapping cygwin1.dll with older versions.
>>>> cygwin1.dll 1.7.29-1 (2014年02月09日 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年06月05日 01:07:23)
>>>> $ dd if=/dev/fd1 of=./junk count=1
>> dd: opening `/dev/fd1': Bad address
>>>> cygwin1.dll 1.7.18-1 (2013年04月19日 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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