Corinna wrote:
> In theory, the Cygwin DLL has to provide stuff through ioctl's after
> opening the device file. There are already quite a few ioctl's
> supported, namely
>
> HDIO_GETGEO, BLKGETSIZE, BLKGETSIZE64, BLKRRPART, BLKSSZGET, BLKIOMIN,
> BLKIOOPT, BLKPBSZGET, BLKALIGNOFF, RDIOCDOP subcom
On 2020-07-27 05:24, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin wrote:
Please maintain threading using Reply to List or Reply/All to keep the
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for your repli
On Jul 27 12:24, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin wrote:
> Thanks Corinna and Brian.
>
> smartmontools does help - I can see make and model, which is definitely
> helpful.
>
> Oh, I guess I just didn't have blkid installed then. I'll fix that.
>
> Brian,
>
> I'd be happy to attempt implementin
Thanks Corinna and Brian.
smartmontools does help - I can see make and model, which is definitely
helpful.
Oh, I guess I just didn't have blkid installed then. I'll fix that.
Brian,
I'd be happy to attempt implementing this, but I'm not sure where to
start. With the information you've given me
On 2020-07-23 03:36, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin wrote:
> I have noticed that after plugging in a USB drive, device files appear
> in /dev that correlate to the partitions on the drive.
>
> This is great because it means things like ddrescue can work in Cygwin,
> but I'm not yet sure how to
On Jul 23 12:29, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin wrote:
> On 23/07/2020 10:36, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have noticed that after plugging in a USB drive, device files appear
> > in /dev that correlate to the partitions on the drive.
> >
> > This is great because it means
On 23/07/2020 10:36, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have noticed that after plugging in a USB drive, device files appear
> in /dev that correlate to the partitions on the drive.
>
> This is great because it means things like ddrescue can work in Cygwin,
> but I'm not yet sure how to
Hi all,
I have noticed that after plugging in a USB drive, device files appear
in /dev that correlate to the partitions on the drive.
This is great because it means things like ddrescue can work in Cygwin,
but I'm not yet sure how to relate these to the drives Windows sees.
None of the standard L
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