Hello list, I have searched but have been unable to solve the following problem:
Can win98 access /dev/sda directly? the article here suggests that only NT+ can do this??? http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html I want to be able to run the the perl scripts here: http://www.nal.ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/~oosaki/akaitools/ in cygwin under win98. The scripts require block level access to my scsi drives e.g >AKAI_DISK=/dev/sda >export AKAI_DISK I have only been able to access the device (a scsi iomega zip 100 in this case) via /cygdrive/d but this isn't sufficient access to the drive. The author of the script says I need: 2. Find the block device file for the attached HDD/CD-ROM (e.g., /dev/sda or /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0). Please note that you should use entire disk (e.g., /dev/sda) instead of disk partition (e.g., /dev/sda1). I have the script running on a slackware zipslack distribution in dos but this requires me to exit windows. If anyone can shed any light then I would be very grateful. regards, Mike ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: webmail.brad.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: webmail.brad.ac.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/