From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3793 invoked by alias); 1 Sep 2003 12:57:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 3771 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2003 12:57:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygbert.vinschen.de) (193.175.24.89) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Sep 2003 12:57:20 -0000 Received: by cygbert.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 97FDE5804C; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:57:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 12:57:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: md5sum of a CD Message-ID: <20030901125717.GE1888@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" References: <4989AFD7505BD611961B0002A5DA3E740382BDF0@NNHML2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4989AFD7505BD611961B0002A5DA3E740382BDF0@NNHML2> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00023.txt.bz2 On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:36:26PM +0100, Hughes, Bill wrote: > >Sent: 01 September 2003 13:14 From: Corinna Vinschen > > > >Don't do this. Read the above document again, carefully. Using mount > >is unnecessary. It was only necessary until Cygwin 1.3.3. Please > >read again, beginning with the paragraph starting with > > > > "Since Cygwin 1.3.4 raw devices are accessible from inside of Cygwin > > processes using fixed POSIX device names. [...]" > > Understood. I umounted and it works, of course. > I think I tried md5sum /dev/scd0 and _thought_ it hadn't worked. I probably > wasn't waiting long enough and Ctrl-Ced, assuming it had either hung or was > waiting for console input. > Patience and understanding are good, I need more of both, I shall work on > them. > Thank you for your help. I've changed the description how to access raw devices. The way how to mount these devices is entirely gone. Please read it again and report back, if the description of raw devices is a bit clearer now. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/