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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:37:45 -0500
To: Robert Pendell <shinji257 AT gmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: floppy drive accesses
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At 02:57 AM 12/13/2004, you wrote:
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>Eric Schweitz wrote:
>|
>| I just upgraded my cygwin installation and I'm now seeing
>| the floppy drive get accessed on various commands.  What
>| gives?  The commands with this broken behavior I've run
>| across are: find, df, mount at least.
>|
>| How do I turn this off short of ripping the floppy drive
>| out of my machine?
>|
>| I've run filemon and strace and nothing is obviously accessing
>| A: directly.
>|
>| --
>| Eric
>|
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>I have to confirm this problem.  Original basic install from June
>27th state of local cygwin mirror.  That would be about 5 months
>old.  I updated to the current version and now I get floppy accesses
>even though there is no request for floppy.  This occurs with mount
>and when bash gets loaded.  Attached is my cygcheck.out file.


Not to rain on your parade or anything but I have a Cygwin DLL of the 1.3
series and on the machine I ran it on, it accesses the floppy drive for 
commands like 'df', mounted or not.  So to me it is conceivable that this 
is not a new issue, even if it's new to you. ;-)



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