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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:57:11 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Mount //./cdrom0 problem
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In-Reply-To: <10ff01c11487$4de52d50$b66416ac@spimageworks.com>; from dobrin@imageworks.com on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:26:29PM -0700

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:26:29PM -0700, Bruce Dobrin wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been backing up cd images by mounting them as block devices and using
> dd to dump the image to a file  (all on win2k).   I just tryiied this on my
> NT4 machine and found that :  "   mount -f -b  //./cdrom0 /dev/cda "
> doesn't seem to work on NT (but works fine on win2k).  I get an error that
> /dev/cda is not a recognized file or directory.  Is the Block Device name
> for the cdrom on NT different than the name on Win2k?  (I tried //./cd-rom0
> too,  to no effect).  Has anyone else had success with mounting the CD-rom
> Bolck device on NT?

You can access the cd-rom on both, NT4 and W2K, using the drive letter:

	mount -f -b //./F: /dev/cda

Corinna

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