1.7: Problem with Novell volumes

[Sean Stidman]

Hello,

   I recently upgraded to Cygwin 1.7.  Since the upgrade, I started having issues with accessing Novell volumes.  These issues are possibly similar to those seen by Avi Shwartz in his other threads.  I'm too dumb to figure out how I can reply to those other threads so my apologies for creating another one.  But I figured having another person with the same issue might be useful for getting to the bottom of the problem.

   All of the Novell volumes are having the same issues, but I'll use the H: drive to show the problem.  I can perform an "ls" with no problems, but "ls -l" and "cd" fail as shown below:
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34027@TCOM-NFO-16 ~
$ ls /cygdrive/h
Citrix_docs  Favorites     My Wallpapers  Workspace  workbench
Default.rdp  My Documents  Notes          notes.ini

34027@TCOM-NFO-16 ~
$ ls -l /cygdrive/h
ls: cannot access /cygdrive/h: Input/Output error

34027@TCOM-NFO-16 ~
$ cd /cygdrive/h
-bash: cd: /cygdrive/h: Not a directory
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Here is a comparison of a local NTFS volume versus the Novell drive mentioned above:
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34027@TCOM-NFO-16 ~
$ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/c
Device Type        : 7
Characteristics    : 20
Volume Name        : <>
Serial Number      : 2289774672
Max Filenamelength : 255
Filesystemname     : <NTFS>
Flags              : 700ff
  FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH  : TRUE
  FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES   : TRUE
  FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK        : TRUE
  FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS        : TRUE
  FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION       : TRUE
  FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS          : TRUE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES  : TRUE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: TRUE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE
  FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED   : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS    : TRUE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION    : TRUE
  FILE_NAMED_STREAMS          : TRUE
  FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME       : FALSE
  FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE  : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS  : FALSE

34027@TCOM-NFO-16 ~
$ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/h
Device Type        : 7
Characteristics    : 30
Volume Name        : <USER42>
Serial Number      : 167843373
Max Filenamelength : 255
Filesystemname     : <NWFS>
Flags              : 2
  FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH  : FALSE
  FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES   : TRUE
  FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK        : FALSE
  FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS        : FALSE
  FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION       : FALSE
  FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS          : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES  : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE
  FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED   : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS    : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION    : FALSE
  FILE_NAMED_STREAMS          : FALSE
  FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME       : FALSE
  FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE  : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS  : FALSE
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Output from "mount" if it is helpful:
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$ mount
C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
F: on /cygdrive/f type nwfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
G: on /cygdrive/g type nwfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
H: on /cygdrive/h type nwfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
Q: on /cygdrive/q type nwfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
Y: on /cygdrive/y type nwfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
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Cygwin Version information:
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$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 TCOM-NFO-16 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin
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I did not include a trace here but I can do so if it is helpful.




Thanks in advance for any help you can provide,

Sean


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