>bingo! Thanks to your hint my cygwin is working now perfectly on an >external disk drive (Momobay CX-2 with a 40GB 2,5" disk, >Firewire/USB2.0 >:-)) The only thing still to improve is to mount a Firewire or USB 2.0 >card in the PC to connect the drive (with USB 1.1 it is quite slow) >Thanks again - nice weekend from Munich :-)
this has nothing to do wioth cygwin. cygwin is not able to mount any other filesystem than windows provides. get an updated USB2 driver, let it assign to a drive, and cygwin detects that as logical volume which is mapped by cygwin to /cygdrive/<volumeletter> -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- 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/
