The Old New Thing

Hardware backward compatibility: The finicky floppy drive

July 27, 2010 Jul 27, 2010 07/27/10

Raymond Chen

I think the behavior is more petulant than finicky, but finicky is alliterative. Back in the days of Windows 95, I was talking with the person responsible for, among other things, the floppy disk driver, and I learned about a particular driver hack that was needed to work around a flaw in a very common motherboard chipset. Apparently ...