Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/03/28/09:46:20
On 27 March 2007 21:13, Ken Fast wrote:
> My problem now is that your fix does not seem to apply to my case. I do
> not have a
> c:\windows\system32\dla\dlactrlw.exe, but instead have a tfswctrl.exe. In
> the Sonic help
> there is information on DLA. It would appear that I have it turned on for
> my machine, even
> though I can't see it in the Task Manager. (As a corporate user on this
> machine I can't
> get into the registry or services to look.)
>
> Any other ideas?
Well, as a corporate user, your best bet is to go talk to your IT people and
explain that it's causing a problem with the cygwin tools that you need to use
to do your job and could they uninstall it for you please? The DLA software
is used for (udfs) packet-based cd burning by dragging and dropping files to
the cd in explorer. You won't be able to read or write packet-based discs any
more but you'll still be able to read and burn standard disc-at-once or
track-at-once cds.
UDFS is a PITA anyway. Non-standard, plagued by buggy drivers and
implementations, you're better off without it. I once had some UDFS
packet-burning software on my w2k box that thought it had a really bright
idea: it put a standard-format boot sector/autorun track (I forget exactly
which) on every UDFS disc, that would run any time you inserted the disk in a
machine without a UDFS driver and install one.
Unfortunately the UDFS driver it installed was buggy. So what you really
got was a disc which when you inserted it into a machine, it immediately
BSoD'd the machine.
But not before configuring the buggy driver to autostart in early boot.
So after you take the disk out you're left with a brick that just
auto-self-destructs every time you boot it up.
Took a while to fix that one.
This is why I feel that UDFS must die.
> Ken
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> xx
Let's keep it on a professional basis, please! ;-)
cheers,
DaveK
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