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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: "'Cygwin List'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: floppy drive accesses
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:07:23 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Eric Schweitz
> Sent: 10 December 2004 17:56
> To: Cygwin List
> Subject: Re: floppy drive accesses
> 
> 
> My guess is it's some configuration thing as well.  But
> I'm not sure where to look.  I've checked the more obvious
> things such as PATH settings, /etc files, ...
> 
> The machine (a DELL) is running Win XP SP2.  I'll have to
> try on another machine... later.
> 
> I guess I'm just going to pull the drive, since it is
> ridiculous, slow, and annoying.


  Thing is, it's almost certainly an underlying behaviour of the windows OS
rather than anything Cygwin is doing.  It seems to like to scan the FD quite a
lot.  For example, if you've recently used wordpad to edit a file on the floppy,
you'll see the FD get accessed every time you run wordpad again; it's something
to do with it verifying the file MRU list.


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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