Are Floppy Drives Supported?

[VoloDroid]

@Ostrowski

So why was the decision made to throw out something that was already finished and working?

Because at some point it became broken by an indirect change, and after that people either a) didn’t care to fix it; or b) those who cared didn’t have a floppy drive to test their fix on.

Pc_floppy does not work

After looking over the pc_floppy driver’s code, it looks like the reason this driver isn’t functional is that the “Driver Configuration Manager” (a system module that was used for keeping track of internally connected devices on BeOS) is currently unimplemented. The pc_floppy driver attempts to scan on the ISA bus for floppy drives using the Driver Configuration Manager here: This is the code attempting to be called: I think the solution here would involve wrapping the Driver Configuration …