[ros-kernel] Can't Load FLoppy Driver.

[Eric Kohl]

"James Tabor" <jimtabor at adsl-64-217-116-74.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net> wrote:


> Hi,
> The old floppy driver worked but you had to load ROS with the floppy
> inserted into the drive.
>
> So, what is wrong with the new driver? It's a PCI->S/IO->ISA device.
> With the default dma = 2, irq = 6, io = 3f2-3f5, 3f7. FreeDOS can see
> it.
>
> DriverBase for \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\floppy.sys: ddf0c000
> floppy: AddControllers: failed to get controller info from registry

You _must_ boot ReactOS using FreeLoader in order to use the floppy driver
because FreeLoader retrieves some controller data from the BIOS that is used
by the floppy driver.


Regards,
Eric