From: corinna.vinschen@cityweb.de (Corinna Vinschen) Subject: Re: sorry, my fault 16 Dec 1998 23:20:49 -0800 Message-ID: <36782339.9C82E317.cygnus.gnu-win32@cityweb.de> References: <3.0.5.32.19981215182641.0091cd60@deis64> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stefano Lodi , gnu-win32@cygnus.com Stefano Lodi wrote: > > [...] > > I am about to try it on my 95 at home--BTW is it only tape support that > doesn't work on 95 or the whole raw device support (also floppies)?. As described in the cv_cygwin1.dll.README, raw device support on W95 is restricted to raw partitions. So, mount -b //./a: /dev/fd0 or e.g. mount -b //./e: /dev/zip both work. NT also has the ability, to address a complete disk device as one single raw device, regardless of the count of partitions on it. This is addresses by e.g.: mount -b //./physicaldrive0 /dev/hda or else. This isn't possible on W9X. Regards, Corinna - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".