X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: From: "Lee Maschmeyer" To: References: <7CDD82AEE5144D60961BDAD9B1C1A40D AT cit DOT wayne DOT edu> <4877A0FE DOT 1070002 AT cygwin DOT com> Subject: Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:02:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=mirapointmr3.wayne.edu X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A090207.4877AE4E.0040,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=141.217.4.199, so=2007-10-30 19:00:17, dmn=5.4.3/2008-02-01 X-Junkmail-IWF: false X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Larry Hall wrote: > From what I can see, the fact that the path is referencing 'a:' is > the problem. You fix that in Windows in the "System" applet in > the "Control Panel". Nope, Control Panel shows the Path (sic) variable correctly pointing to c:\Windows etc. Besides, if Windows was looking for Windows on a: then the problem would affect everything on the whole computer, not just Cygwin. Also, even in the cygcheck output, all the variables that should go into the construction of the path are correct (home drive and all that stuff). -- Lee Maschmeyer Computing Center Services Computing and Information Technology Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA -- 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/