Hervé Poussineau <hpous...@reactos.org> writes: > Markus Armbruster a écrit : >> Hervé Poussineau <hpous...@reactos.org> writes: >> >>> Floppies can be simple or double-sided. However, current code >>> was only taking the common case into account (ie 2 sides). >> >> Impact? > > This repairs single-sided floppies > >> Are single sided floppies broken before the patch? How? > > Yes. For head > 0, wrong sector number is calculated, so data is > read/written at wrong place on underlying block device. > > Fortunately, mostly nobody is still using single-sided floppies (only > some 360 kB floppies are single-sided), so bug has been neglected > since a long time.
Nice info, thanks. Best put it in the commit message.
