Mount //./cdrom0 problem

[Bruce Dobrin]

Thank you for the pointer to WinObj. (It also explained much which was
previously cryptic in the way the two os's handle devices and Net volumes as
well as the afore mentioned cdrom0 question).  I had been worried that
mounting the link to the drive letter,  might have bypassed blocks
accessible  by the block device link (as is the case with physicaldisk0 and
the drive letter).  I see now that this is not the case with the CDROM.

Thanks again
B. Dobrin


----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
To: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin@cygwin.com>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: Mount //./cdrom0 problem


> At 05:57 PM 7/24/2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:26:29PM -0700, Bruce Dobrin wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I've been backing up cd images by mounting them as block devices and
using
> > > dd to dump the image to a file  (all on win2k).   I just tryiied this
on my
> > > NT4 machine and found that :  "   mount -f -b  //./cdrom0 /dev/cda "
> > > doesn't seem to work on NT (but works fine on win2k).  I get an error
that
> > > /dev/cda is not a recognized file or directory.  Is the Block Device
name
> > > for the cdrom on NT different than the name on Win2k?  (I tried
//./cd-rom0
> > > too,  to no effect).  Has anyone else had success with mounting the
CD-rom
> > > Bolck device on NT?
> >
> >You can access the cd-rom on both, NT4 and W2K, using the drive letter:
> >
> >         mount -f -b //./F: /dev/cda
> >
> >Corinna
>
>
>
> Quite true.  The problem you're having Bruce is that you rely on symbolic
> names defined in the O/S.  cdrom0 exists in W2K but not in NT.  If your
> interested to see the differences in this area between W2K and NT, I
> recommend WinObj which you can get at www.sysinternals.com.
>
>
>
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