Re: [Qemu-devel] floppy disk

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Benjamin David Lunt wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I only recently have started to use QEmu due to a request
> on the alt.os.development usenet group.  My OS was not working
> on QEmu due to it would not recognize the (emulated) floppy.
>
> After a lot of testing, QEmu does not return the correct
> values for a Sense Interrupt command and the Status 0 byte.
>
> After looking over fdc.cc, someone has placed a hack write
> where it should return these values.
>
> I am just wondering if this hack is temporary or if it will
> be committed as code.

That's the current state of the code in CVS.

> For a more detailed description, QEmu returns the value
> 0x20 while Bochs, VMware, and real hardware return the
> values 0xC0, 0xC1, 0xC2, and 0xC3, for each drive 1 - 4
> respectively.
>
> I am asking for more information on this subject.

The interrupt status handling in QEMU's FDC emulation looks bogus
to me, patches to fix it are welcome. :-)


Thiemo