From: "George Kinney" <goober AT mail DOT net>
Subject: Re: CD ROM drives and GCC
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Elliott Oti <e DOT oti AT stud DOT warande DOT ruu DOT nl> wrote in article
<33E4DB49 DOT 33E9 AT stud DOT warande DOT ruu DOT nl>...
> Brett Leslie Porter wrote:
> > >
> > I know its probably too simple to be correct, but your CDROM is not in
> > the PATH variable anywhere is it?
> 
> No. No reference to the CDROM drive, or a program or directory on it
> anywhere in my autoexec.bat, config.sys or djgpp.env.

I've had a similar bit of strangeness happen to me. Seems any time I boot
win95
with a cd-rom in the tray, it proceeds to spin it up when I search for
files, 
or run anything that searches the path. It also has a tendancy to do it if
I 
put it anything with an autorun.exe on it. After I kill that prog, it gets
spun-up
whenever I try to access it again.  Weirdest thing is that it doesn't do it

consistantly, so I still haven't nailed it down precisely.

The only way I've been able to get it stop is to remove the cd, then hit
start|shutdown|close all progs and login as new user

It's not in the path, nothing is being loaded from it either. (I wonder if
maybe
win95 is blindly cacheing it? Or maybe silently adds it to the path?)

Anyways, may or not be useful info, good luck.

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George Kinney    gkinney (AT) usa (DOT) net