# ReactOS Newsletter 58 Covers UniATA Driver Fixes

DevFeed: [ReactOS Newsletter 58 Covers UniATA Driver Fixes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/newsletter-58-32924.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-58/>)

Published: 2009-05-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [memory pool](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/memory-pool.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bug.md>), [implementation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/implementation.md>), [Kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kernel.md>), [USB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/usb.md>), [Oracle-VM-VirtualBox](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vm-box.md>)

Tags: [cd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cd.md>), [controllers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/controllers.md>), [crashes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/crashes.md>), [debugger](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debugger.md>), [driver](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/driver.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kernel.md>), [memory-pool](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memory-pool.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [usb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/usb.md>), [virtualbox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/virtualbox.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>)

## AI overview

ReactOS Newsletter 58 reports progress on the UniATA driver, including a timing fix that makes CD-ROM drives detect reliably on real hardware. It also discusses memory-pool debugging, a remaining VirtualBox failure, and a USB crash fix.

## Source excerpt

UniATA The Universal ATA driver has often been pointed out as a way to solve some rather annoying issues in ReactOS, such as the lack of support for SATA and limiting the amount of space ROS sees to about 8GB. Since both issues border on the outright absurd in this day and age, fixing them was of very high priority. A few showstoppers stood in the way however of switching over permanently and Aleksey Bragin has managed to resolve some of them.