X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: From: "Lee Maschmeyer" To: References: <7CDD82AEE5144D60961BDAD9B1C1A40D@cit.wayne.edu> <4877A0FE.1070002@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:02:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=mirapointmr3.wayne.edu X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A090207.4877AE4E.0040,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=141.217.4.199, so=2007-10-30 19:00:17, dmn=5.4.3/2008-02-01 X-Junkmail-IWF: false X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Larry Hall wrote: > From what I can see, the fact that the path is referencing 'a:' is > the problem. You fix that in Windows in the "System" applet in > the "Control Panel". Nope, Control Panel shows the Path (sic) variable correctly pointing to c:\Windows etc. Besides, if Windows was looking for Windows on a: then the problem would affect everything on the whole computer, not just Cygwin. Also, even in the cygcheck output, all the variables that should go into the construction of the path are correct (home drive and all that stuff). -- Lee Maschmeyer Computing Center Services Computing and Information Technology Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA -- 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/