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Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:55:41 -0800
From: Eric Schweitz <schweitz AT reservoir DOT com>
To: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT gmx DOT net>
Cc: Eric Schweitz <schweitz AT reservoir DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: floppy drive accesses
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On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 01:01:22PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> Hello,

Hi Pavel,

> 
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Eric Schweitz wrote:
> 
> > I just upgraded my cygwin installation and I'm now seeing
> > the floppy drive get accessed on various commands.  What
> 
> How old was your Cygwin setup before the update ?

To be honest, I don't recall.  Maybe ~6 months or so?

> 
> This thread might be related to what you are experiencing if you have
> a floppy disk in your floppy drive:
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2003-q3/msg00048.html

Thanks.

The strange part is that the floppy was not mounted (so far as I
know -- at least I never tried to mount it).  Using filemon I didn't
even see A: get referenced. (???)

> 
> If you don't have a floppy disk in the drive what happens
> if you run 'mount' several times, one after the other ? Do you
> still get attempts to access the floppy drive ?

I was getting attempts to access everytime... up until I took the
drive out.  It may still be trying for all I know.  (If it's a 
feature of Microsoft Windows, it no doubt *is* still trying.) :)

I'll have to play around with it some more when I get some free
time and try to narrow it down...


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