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