Re: [coLinux-devel] Re: mounting cdrom

[Erlend S. <sle...@st...>]

> | You claim it's possible to mount devices in a non-raw way using
> | \DosDevices\<drive letter>, but I've not been able to do this.
> This is the only way I can do it. I think that it is interesting that our
> experience is the complete opposite. Again, AFAIK this is not raw
> access.

Ok. And you are then able to access the drive from both XP and linux at
the same time?

Anyone else had experiences with mounting non-raw devices?

> If it's
> | then mounted through some windows-driver, shouldn't it be able to access
> | drives already mounted by XP in that way too (both harddisks and cdroms)?
> Exactly. Though I personally wont be doing that on a hard disk.

If windows is managing the reading/writing to the disk, this shouldn't be
a problem, should it? Anyway, I'm just experimenting on a non-important
drive.

--Erlend