X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4877D782.4000308@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:58:26 -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> <4877B123.3080409@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: >> So $PATH in bash references '/cygdrive/a'? > > No, $PATH references c:/windows: > > $ echo $PATH > ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/usr/bin:/usr/X11r6/bin:/e > /Program Files/Executive Software/Diskeeper/:/usr/lib/lapack OK, so perhaps your problem and the Windows path shown by 'cygcheck' are two different issues. I'm back to not being sure why you're seeing accesses on your floppy drive. Maybe if you straced a simple operation, you might be able to tell us who, what, when, why, and/or how the floppy drive gets accessed. -- 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/