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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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