X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4877B123.3080409@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:14:43 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Lightning/0.8 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive References: <7CDD82AEE5144D60961BDAD9B1C1A40D@cit.wayne.edu> <4877A0FE.1070002@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Lee Maschmeyer wrote: > 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). So $PATH in bash references '/cygdrive/a'? Maybe some strange bug in the path conversion logic if so. Dunno for sure right now. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/