You can also check out http://www.hackchina.com/en/r/101589/fdc.htm__html as an HTML reference.
The nice thing about FDC is that it even uses ACPI, so it's a good test point for that. Then you can import flpydisk and get rid of the current NT4-based floppy.sys -- Best regards, Alex Ionescu On 2011-06-02, at 11:53 AM, Cameron Gutman wrote: > > >> With all my respect to the hard work put into this, I want to express my >> concerns: > How did I know this was coming? ;) >> >> Why is there a need to develop a half-done fdc, if there is a full, working, >> tested by millions driver available even in old DDKs, which we can use >> without violating its license? >> Why waste time writing that driver from scratch now when we could just >> import DDK's one and spend time fixing our PnP manager instead, and other >> involved components so that DDK's driver actually works? > As far as I know, the only floppy related DDK driver is sfloppy.sys. If that > is wrong, I would be happy to import a better fdc.sys and scrap this one. >> Again, with all my respect to Cameron, he does a great job, but when he >> disappears next time for a year or two, who is going to finish FDC? Or any >> other of his half-finished branches? (each being really a pearl if it's >> done). > aicom-hardware-fun can be deleted because somebody is finally working on usb. > tcp-rewrite-branch was merged to the GSoC project. The only incomplete branch > is aicom-network-branch which has Alex's new Winsock code in it (which only a > few bugs prevent from being fully functional). >> I would really suggest using all available resources first and only then >> spend time developing our own stuff instead of already existing. > I did this thing in one (long) night because I was bored. It's not like I > spent a month doing it. I know people say "Who cares about floppy support?" > and I agree but it has to be done at some point to be compatible with > XP/Vista/7. >> >> Thanks for understanding, >> Aleksey. > Regards, > Cameron > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
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