X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:44:38 -0600 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Chuck wrote: > Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >>> which makes me think that maybe its the writing to stdout that's >>> failing. >> At this point I'd suggest SpinRite: http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm > Haven't tried spinrite yet but I did do a "thorough" check of the > drive using Tuneup Utilities. That's the one that requires exclusive > access to the disk, reboots, and runs as the o/s starts to come up. It > identifies and fixes bad sectors. It found nothing wrong with the HD. I cannot speak for "Tuneup Utilities" however I've heard that SpinRite is better than most out there. > As stated before, I really do *not* believe this is a HD getting ready > to fail. If it were I would expect problems in Windows and Cygwin, not > just Cygwin. And I find it as hard to believe that for some odd reason Cygwin would behave this way just for you. > I could be wrong but my suspicion is that Daemon tools' uninstaller > left something behind. Something that hooks into the filesystem api. I > remember when installing it that it had to reboot *before* installing > itself and I think it was adding some sort of virtual device driver or > a hook into the Windows filesystem API. After rebooting, it installed > itself. I am highly suspicious that whatever it installed during that > first reboot is still hanging around and causing problems for cygwin. I have no idea what this Daemon tools thing is. Hooks into the file system. Gee that's beginning to sound like a root-kit! -- Andrew DeFaria My friend has a baby. I'm writing down all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. -- Andrew DeFaria Help! I'm modeming... and I can't hang up!!! -- 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/