To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 12:35:05 -0500
Subject: Strange behavior of LD.exe from bunutils 2.8.1
Message-ID: <19980803.124637.2798.0.troyvanhorn@juno.com>
From: troyvanhorn AT juno DOT com (Troy D Van Horn)
Precedence: bulk

	I have noticed that everytime LD is executed, it accesses my E:
drive (which is a CD-ROM on my computer). This happens both under Windows
95 and DOS.  Under Windows 95 it causes my CD-ROM drive to spin up if it
has spun down, causing a 2 or 3 second delay.  Under DOS it causes the
drive to spin up only the first time I run LD after rebooting into DOS. 
Why is this? Was it hardcoded to search for something on drive E: in LD
in binutils 2.8.1?  Will a later release of binutils still have this
behavior? And finally, is there anything I can do to stop this behavior?

	Troy Van Horn............

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