On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I guess I'll ask on one of the Microsoft newsgroups if this is a known > effect and especially what I'm doing wrong or what I have to do to > get the desired behaviour. > > Btw., if anybody has an idea what's going wrong, please speak up :}
Maybe this excerpt from the CreateFile documentation applies? "Note To read or write to the last few sectors of the volume, you must call DeviceIoControl and specify FSCTL_ALLOW_EXTENDED_DASD_IO. This signals the file system driver not to perform any I/O boundary checks on partition read or write calls. Instead, boundary checks are performed by the device driver." Chris -- 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/
