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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:23:03 +0100
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: [FW] ## Hello.~i want to know ->Cygwin on external drive?]
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>bingo! Thanks to your hint my cygwin is working now perfectly on an
>external disk drive (Momobay CX-2 with a 40GB 2,5" disk, >Firewire/USB2.0
>:-)) The only thing still to improve is to mount a Firewire or USB 2.0
>card in the PC to connect the drive (with USB 1.1 it is quite slow)
>Thanks again - nice weekend from Munich :-)

this has nothing to do wioth cygwin.
cygwin is not able to mount any other filesystem than windows provides.

get an updated USB2 driver, let it assign to a drive, and cygwin detects
that as logical volume which is mapped by cygwin to /cygdrive/<volumeletter>
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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