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Subject:	Re: 1.5.24 format.com hangs through ssh
Date:	Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:48:55 -0500
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I meant that for some reason format.com wasn't sufficient.  It was 
formatted but not really.  Kinda hard to explain.  It wasn't until I 
used disk management to do it that it was ok.  The environment I used 
should be equivalent to a real machine.

srp wrote:
> Thanks for your effort Robert.  I was hoping that my Cygwin environment 
> was somehow to blame.
> 
> What did you mean that formatting alone was not sufficient?  I was able 
> to read and write to the drive once the format was complete.
> 
> -srp
> 
> Robert Pendell wrote:
>> srp wrote:
>>> Thanks Larry.  Version Updated.  1.5.24 is correct.
>>>
>>> You WAG wrong however.  Once the Volume has been formated in a native 
>>> Cygwin window I can format successfully via SSH and all output is 
>>> displayed.
>>>
>>> With a newly created tiny volume the hang last in excess of an hour 
>>> and should complete in second.
>>>
>>> -srp
>>>
>>
>> Ok.  I have a couple of Virtual Machines setup here for testing 
>> purposes and such so I setup a cygwin install on the XP one (snapshot 
>> before hand so it can revert back clean) and installed a base cygwin 
>> setup with openssh.  Then I installed the server and set it up as a 
>> service.  I also turned off the firewall on it (no one can access it 
>> outside of the network anyways).  I did not do anything special but it 
>> has 2 virtual hard drives to it.  A 1 GB one was added to the virtual 
>> machine and I created one unformatted partition that did not have any 
>> particular partition type setup.  Therefore it just showed up as RAW 
>> for now.  I then had to format it but I tried this via SSH.
>>
>> It got stuck right after the line that shows "Proceed with Format 
>> (Y/N)?" same as the OP.  The same command worked fine once I formatted 
>> the partition locally via Disk Management.  This does not appear to be 
>> a WAG (lack of tty support) issue though as this partition formats 
>> quickly (under 10 seconds) when done locally but I waited at least a 
>> minute for it to complete without success.  Please note that 
>> formatting using the format command locally wasn't sufficient.  It had 
>> to be done via Disk Management for some reason.  Both quick formats 
>> and regular formats got stuck.  Format.com is listed in the processes 
>> during this with zero activity and no disk activity is being reported 
>> by the Virtual Machine.  Last but not least once it is formatted via 
>> Disk Management it works fine via a SSH session with all output coming 
>> back on the tty.
>>
>> My own cygcheck.out is attached here.
>>
>> Operating System: Windows XP SP2 (all updates installed)
>> Cygwin Version: 1.5.24 (latest)
>> Stock install with only openssh (+ dependencies) and nano installed
>>
>> Any tests you want me to do I am more than willing to.  The 
>> environment is there to test out scenarios.
>>
>> Robert Pendell
>>
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