# Newsletter 70

DevFeed: [Newsletter 70](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/newsletter-70-32936.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-70/>)

Published: 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z

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>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debugging.md>), [Operating system](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/operating-system.md>)

Tags: [arm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/arm.md>), [boot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/boot.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debugging.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.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>), [virtualbox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/virtualbox.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>)

## AI overview

ReactOS's UniATA driver is causing installation failures, hardware timeouts, and dropped boot drives. Developers are investigating timing and interrupt-handling issues, but the exact cause remains uncertain and further testing is needed.

## Source excerpt

UniATA Timing UniATA continues to be problematic, with testers often struggling to get past the first stage install much less actually put ReactOS through its paces. As mentioned before, the time UniATA waits for responses from hardware is considerably lower than that of the old ATA driver. On older hardware, sometimes various drives are not fast enough in responding so operations time out and UniATA reports an error even when there technically was nothing wrong.