From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9859 invoked by alias); 23 Jul 2012 19:27:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 9459 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Jul 2012 19:27:31 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:27:15 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 261A62C00C6; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:27:12 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:27:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: RAID devices not listed under /dev on cygwin Message-ID: <20120723192712.GE17234@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20120721091125.GL31055@calimero.vinschen.de> <20120723074925.GA12741@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00512.txt.bz2 On Jul 23 20:20, Aaron Schneider wrote: > On 23/07/2012 9:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jul 21 13:09, Aaron Schneider wrote: > >>On 21/07/2012 11:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> > >>Not at all. I mean that fedora live dvd sees the virtual raid device > >>md126 while cygwin doesn't under /dev. > > > >Oh, come one. You wrote a mail exclusively with Linux content. How > >was anybody supposed to know this is about Cygwin at all? > > > >Cygwin lists the devices which are harddisks in terms of the native NT > >namespace. What you see are the translations of the device names > >\Device\HarddiskX\PartitionY to /dev/sd*. > >If the device you're referring to is is not available as device in > >this notation, you won't see it. > > > >If you can find the NT equivalent of your Linux md126 device in the > >native NT namespace under /proc/sys/Device, we can talk about covering > >them somehow. Other than that, you can probably access it via > >/cygdrive/, right? > > > > > >Corinna > > > > You are right that I wasn't clear enough in the title, sorry for that. > > As well I made a mistake in naming, the c: drive in windows (which > is mounted in /cygdrive/c/) is md123p3 in linux not md123 which is > the whole raid volume. > > But, taking it back into windows, I've found that the raid volume is > at either of these locations: > > [...] > \Device\Harddisk0\Partition0 In that case, I hope the following section in the User's Guide helps: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple