My floppy driver finally works!

[Ycep]

Now, finally, after 3 months of hardcore debugging, I have finally finished my sector device.
This was the error:

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if(FloppySeek(Track,Head,Drive))return (void*)0;

needed to be:

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if(!FloppySeek(Track,Head,Drive))return (void*)0;

This is how much could single interpuction sign lead to problems. This day, to me, will not be forgotten.
I may be dreaming... This is not possible.
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Now, FAT12! Yeah!

[Octacone]

Congrats! At least you have something that can hold data, even if it is floppy.
Also I wanted to tell you this for a long time: put put put and that is all.
Why FAT12 when you can do FAT32 with the same amount of code.

[Kevin]

Because FAT32 on floppies is a terrible idea (in fact, it's plain wrong because FAT32 has a minimum file system size that is larger than a floppy).

[SpyderTL]

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I think this deserves to go in the AWWW YEAH thread. Congrats.

Because FAT32 on floppies is a terrible idea (in fact, it's plain wrong because FAT32 has a minimum file system size that is larger than a floppy).

That horse has been thoroughly beaten in other threads. I wouldn't put too much effort into arguing about it here...

[mikegonta]

... FAT32 has a minimum file system size that is larger than a floppy ...

exFAT has a maximum file size much larger than FAT32 and a minimum file size of only 1 Meg. MS does not support exFAT on 1.44MB floppy disks
even though the minimum file system size is smaller, whereas FAT32 on 1.44MB floppy disks is fully supported (other than formatting - which is
simple enough to do yourself) by MS on WinXP and later.

That horse has been thoroughly beaten in other threads.

You can lead a programmer to water, but you can't make the programmer think.

[osdever]

Congratulations!