Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 14:31:00 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to access Raw Volumes in Cygwin Environment Message-ID: <20040603123100.GD24021@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040603122108.53223.qmail@web20608.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040603122108.53223.qmail@web20608.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Jun 3 05:21, john george wrote: > My concerns: > 1)Are raw volumes which resides on a dynamic disk > accessible through Cygwin. No, not so far. The raw disk access is using the old naming scheme \device\harddiskX\partitionY which is backward compatible to NT4. I never experimented with dynamic disks so I don't know the NT native naming scheme so far. Adding these shouldn't be overly complicated if the naming scheme is known, though. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/