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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] r6677 broke access to physical FDD on Win32
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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Anthony Liguori wrote:

> block-raw-win32.c:raw_getlength():
> 
>     case FTYPE_HARDDISK:

A floppy disk drive is hard disk?

>         status = DeviceIoControl(s->hfile, IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY_EX,
>                                  NULL, 0, &dg, sizeof(dg), &count, NULL);
>         if (status != 0) {
>             l = dg.DiskSize;
>         }
>         break;

> Looking at the code, perhaps you should be saying -fda //./a.

"-fda //./a" fails, but "-fda //./a:" works for the stable branch. It
does NOT work for original qemu-0.10.0.tar.gz.

Now we "just" need to allow the old syntax. :-)

Robert Riebisch
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