[ros-kernel] Accessing floppy drive without floppy present hangs ReactOS

Mark IJbema mark at ijbema.xs4all.nl
Tue Jan 20 11:50:16 CET 2004


On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:31:23AM +0100, Ge van Geldorp wrote:
> When opening "My Computer" (but also doing a "dir a:" from a blue screen
> command prompt) ReactOS stops responding when there is no disk inserted
> in the drive. This is pretty bad, as after a default install there are
> only two icons on the desktop and you can pretty much expect the user to
> double-click the "My Computer" icon. It seems very likely that there
> will be no floppy in the drive.
> 
> For the moment I've disabled the floppy driver in the release branch.
> The floppy driver wasn't much use yet anyway, since there's no media
> change detection. I think not having an A: drive is better than having
> ReactOS lockup on "My Computer" doubleclicks.

Did you fix this in the release on your ftp, or do i have to wait for
wednesday (not that it matter much, just so i know wether it hangs
because of this or because of something else).

Mark


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