From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Serguei DACHIAN To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Reading physical disks. Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 06:53:00 -0000 Message-id: <1.5.4.32.19990322145253.00675edc@lola.univ-lemans.fr> X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00642.html At 01:56 22/03/99 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > You will find a patched version of b20.1, supporting raw access to > partitions, hard drives and tapes on > ........ > The newer snapshots of winsup (since winsup-990130, I think) contain this > patch, too. Nevertheless, you should download the forementioned README for a > short description of the features. > I got and installed the DLL, include files (which were with DLL) and also your version of mount utility. I can't still read my floppy (without speaking about hard drives). Here is my bash session: ------------------------------------------------ /temp $ uname -a CYGWIN_98-4.10 PCDASH 21.0 (0.7/1/1) 1999-1-14 19:19:56 i586 unknown /temp $ mount Device Directory Type Flags \\.\b: /dev/fd1 RAW -----b- \\.\a: /dev/fd0 RAW -----b- C: / FAT32 ---c-tu /temp $ ls /dev/fd0 ls: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory /temp $ dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.bin bs=512 count=1 dd: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory ------------------------------------------------ The floppies were mounted with: > mount -b //./a: /dev/fd0 and > mount -b //./b: /dev/fd1 The floppy was inside the drive a during the bash session. My system is Win98 and CygWin B20.1 + your mount and your dll. Am I missing something ??? Best regards, Serguei. P.S. Your readme say that some feateres are for NT only. Does it mean that i will not be able to read /dev/fd0 and/or /dev/hda ??? ___________________________________________________________________________ Serguei DACHIAN Laboratoire de Statistique et Processus, Universite du Maine, Av. Olivier Messiaen 72085 Le Mans CEDEX 9, FRANCE Tel. : +33 (0)2 43 83 37 18 Fax. : +33 (0)2 43 83 35 79 E-mail : Serguei.Dachian@univ-lemans.fr WWW : http://www.univ-lemans.fr/sciences/statist/cvs/thesard.html#dachian -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Serguei DACHIAN To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Reading physical disks. Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19990322145253.00675edc@lola.univ-lemans.fr> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00645.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.V17HmNGm8rdTcSFZ_uzA3bt-DmQNr7MTZtEi5tFUPXk@z> At 01:56 22/03/99 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > You will find a patched version of b20.1, supporting raw access to > partitions, hard drives and tapes on > ........ > The newer snapshots of winsup (since winsup-990130, I think) contain this > patch, too. Nevertheless, you should download the forementioned README for a > short description of the features. > I got and installed the DLL, include files (which were with DLL) and also your version of mount utility. I can't still read my floppy (without speaking about hard drives). Here is my bash session: ------------------------------------------------ /temp $ uname -a CYGWIN_98-4.10 PCDASH 21.0 (0.7/1/1) 1999-1-14 19:19:56 i586 unknown /temp $ mount Device Directory Type Flags \\.\b: /dev/fd1 RAW -----b- \\.\a: /dev/fd0 RAW -----b- C: / FAT32 ---c-tu /temp $ ls /dev/fd0 ls: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory /temp $ dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.bin bs=512 count=1 dd: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory ------------------------------------------------ The floppies were mounted with: > mount -b //./a: /dev/fd0 and > mount -b //./b: /dev/fd1 The floppy was inside the drive a during the bash session. My system is Win98 and CygWin B20.1 + your mount and your dll. Am I missing something ??? Best regards, Serguei. P.S. Your readme say that some feateres are for NT only. Does it mean that i will not be able to read /dev/fd0 and/or /dev/hda ??? ___________________________________________________________________________ Serguei DACHIAN Laboratoire de Statistique et Processus, Universite du Maine, Av. Olivier Messiaen 72085 Le Mans CEDEX 9, FRANCE Tel. : +33 (0)2 43 83 37 18 Fax. : +33 (0)2 43 83 35 79 E-mail : Serguei.Dachian@univ-lemans.fr WWW : http://www.univ-lemans.fr/sciences/statist/cvs/thesard.html#dachian -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com