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: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:55:41 -0800 From: Eric Schweitz To: Pavel Tsekov Cc: Eric Schweitz , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: floppy drive accesses Message-ID: <20041213035541.GB11526@fiji.reservoir.com> References: <6.1.0.6.0.20041209090913.03d58550@mail.reservoir.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 01:01:22PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > Hello, Hi Pavel, > > On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Eric Schweitz wrote: > > > I just upgraded my cygwin installation and I'm now seeing > > the floppy drive get accessed on various commands. What > > How old was your Cygwin setup before the update ? To be honest, I don't recall. Maybe ~6 months or so? > > This thread might be related to what you are experiencing if you have > a floppy disk in your floppy drive: > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2003-q3/msg00048.html Thanks. The strange part is that the floppy was not mounted (so far as I know -- at least I never tried to mount it). Using filemon I didn't even see A: get referenced. (???) > > If you don't have a floppy disk in the drive what happens > if you run 'mount' several times, one after the other ? Do you > still get attempts to access the floppy drive ? I was getting attempts to access everytime... up until I took the drive out. It may still be trying for all I know. (If it's a feature of Microsoft Windows, it no doubt *is* still trying.) :) I'll have to play around with it some more when I get some free time and try to narrow it down... -- 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/