Re: [coLinux-devel] Re: mounting cdrom

[Sean B. <sea...@so...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erlend Slettevoll" <sle...@st...>
To: "Sean Brook" <sea...@so...>
Cc: "keksov" <ke...@gm...>; <col...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [coLinux-devel] Re: mounting cdrom


| > | 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?
No I cannot.

|
| 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.
I think that is a big 'should'. It is Windows after all. Personally I do not
think that it works exactly like that. ie. it is not as concrete as raw and
not raw as in Linux IMO. I hope that I am proved wrong and you can
tell me how you get on ;)

|
| --Erlend
|
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