This seems to be a problem with either the cd in question or the XP command interpreter. Other stuff running from cmd.exe is just as slow. Windows explorer isn't. If it turns out that it isn't the CD, maybe I'll say something about it to Microsoft, as I do quite a bit of stuff from the command line and/or bash.
James Potts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Arek (James Potts)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:46 AM Subject: Re: CDROM Access very slow under Windows XP > At 11:23 PM 4/1/2002, Arek \(James Potts\) wrote: > >Hi. I just installed Cygwin on my Windows XP box and CDROM access seems to > >be locked at ~1X for some reason. Any ideas as to what might be causing > >this? Thanks in advance. > > > It's very unlikely that Cygwin is directly affecting your CDROM access but, > of course, given the information in your report, it's not possible to > be more specific in response. My suggestion would be, if you can't determine > what else is responsible for the trouble you see, to uninstall Cygwin and see > if it makes a difference. I expect it won't. If by some strange coincidence > it does, you can reinstall Cygwin and perhaps try debugging the process that > gives you this result. No one else has reported such behavior so if it's a > bug in Cygwin that you'd like to see fixed, we'll need your input to do so. > > > > Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] > RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX > > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/
