Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <41BF417D.6000002@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:39:41 -0500 From: Robert Pendell User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7+ (Windows/20040709) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: "'Cygwin List'" Subject: Re: floppy drive accesses References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dave Korn wrote: |>-----Original Message----- |>From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Larry Hall |>Sent: 13 December 2004 19:38 | | |>At 02:57 AM 12/13/2004, you wrote: |> |>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |>>Hash: SHA1 |>> |>>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. | | | Just to double check: you did make sure to *enable* it for drive A? The | default settings for filemon are only to monitor local HDs, IIRC. | | |>>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. ;-) | | | I was about to say the same thing. Windoze just *luuurves* accessing the | floppy drive for no apparent reason. For quite a long time I used to get a | ka-chunk out of my FD every time I opened up "My computer" in explorer. | | Or to see the problem another way, use wordpad to open up a text file off your | FD, then close and exit wordpad, and run it again. You should find it accesses | the FD; this is as a consequence of having a file from A: on the MRU list. | | You may be able to stop this by digging around for references to A: in the | registry, but be cautious! Personally, I suspect something to do with those | StreamMRU and Stream keys under HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current | Version/Explorer myself, but that's a pretty WAG. | | cheers, | DaveK Thanks for the responses. Fortunately I didn't have to do that at all. My install was nothing more than a base install with rsync and openssh installed. I uninstalled cygwin. Cleaned the system (deleted the Cygnus registry keys and cygwin install dir) then reinstalled using the default install. It accessed the floppy drive the first time then never again. I installed rsync and it did not access the drive. So the problem seems to have disappeared. I do know what you are talking about though. I've had that happen before with other apps and usually it is because of that programs MRU list. - -- Robert Pendell shinji257 AT gmail DOT com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) iD8DBQFBv0F9DVXErD6aUwMRAqysAJ46HkJKL7D8MDBVBJmlP5Y0sfBIGQCglhKg 7vkMSj0L5Lk/vEKu3A+oqm0= =/ol0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/