Date:	Tue, 30 Dec 1997 10:12:31 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Colin Walsh <cwalsh AT nf DOT sympatico DOT ca>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: LD looks at zip drive
In-Reply-To:	<34a87317.0@204.101.95.15>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.971230101215.577C-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On 30 Dec 1997, Colin Walsh wrote:

> My zip drive (which I've only had for a few days) does the same
> exact thing when I compile (and I'm not using RHIDE).

Do you also use Windows 95, or was it in plain DOS?

> I put the -v switch in and it occurs when ld is running. In the
> command line used to invoke ld there is no reference to any files
> being accessed on drive d:, also, there is no reference to anything
> on the drive in my path. I'm guessing tho' that no harm is being
> done and its just some sort of quirk of ld.

Please read the questions in my other message and see if any of them
rings a bell.  `ld' has no business randomly accessing your drives.

The interesting question is why does it access the zip drive but not
the floppies?

Could it be that the zip disk device driver is the one that somehow
decides to spin the disk when something happens on your system?

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