[haiku] Re: Wanted to write to my floppy drive
- From: Brian Hague <alphaseinor@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:33:01 -0500
How else will I get that OG copy of Virtual(void).MP3 off my 1.44?
Brian Hague
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:34 AM, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le mardi 12 juillet 2011 à 11:41 +0200, Jonas Sundström a écrit :
>> I don't know much about floppies these days, but if accessing
>> them requires dropping the system to realmode (16-bit) to access
>> the BIOS interface, I think that can have an adverse effect on the
>> system as a whole, but likely only while using the floppy device.
>
> No it's just a simple driver that accesses the controller if present.
> It's just currently buggy it seems, but that should be easy to fix.
> Anyone answering this thread should already have had the time to write a
> patch to submit.
>
> François.
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