[syslinux] Problems with Win32 syslinux

[Alex Pavloff]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 4:15 PM
> To: H. Peter Anvin
> Cc: Alex Pavloff; syslinux at zytor.com
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] Problems with Win32 syslinux

> 
> Oh, yes: 2.07 contains some fixes for the Win32 installer.  I 
> don't really know what they do, but you may want to try it out.

It appears the fixes change the API used to determine whether or not the
drive is removable or not, as well as remove a FlushFileBuffers() call.
They don't seem to have any major changes in the way the program works.

After testing all the Flash I have and running SYSLINUX.EXE on both type
of CompactFlash with no problems, I suspect that we were just shipped an
old batch of non-spec conforming CompactFlash that didn't implement the
True-IDE access mode properly (despite the nice CF logo). 

I have no "32MB CHH" flash remaining, but it seems extremely unlikely
that corruption of a CompactFlash would result in it ending up with a
string containing the capacity of the CF.

Alex Pavloff - apavloff at esatechnology.com
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