# ReactOS Newsletter 65: Cross-Platform Storage API and Sound Mixer Progress

DevFeed: [ReactOS Newsletter 65: Cross-Platform Storage API and Sound Mixer Progress](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/newsletter-65-32931.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-65/>)

Published: 2009-10-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

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>), [cross-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cross-platform.md>), [x86](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/x86.md>), [DRIVE](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/drive.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [audio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/audio.md>), [boot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/boot.md>), [compatibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compatibility.md>), [cross-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cross-platform.md>), [filesystem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/filesystem.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [partitions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/partitions.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>), [x86](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/x86.md>)

## AI overview

ReactOS Newsletter 65 reports progress on a new name-based storage and bootloader API intended to improve cross-platform support, along with ongoing filesystem-driver updates, a compatibility layer, and sound mixer enumeration.

## Source excerpt

Disks and Partitions One of the non-cross platform aspects of ReactOS was in how the bootloader dealt with disks and partitions. The naming scheme used was very x86 centric and also was limited in which partitions it could access. Hervé Poussineau started working on a new API to remove the limitations, one based on names instead of drive numbers. Previously on platforms like PPC and ARM, developers would have needed to give numbers to each storage device they wanted to use.