> -----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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