1.5.24 format.com hangs through ssh

[Robert Pendell]

srp wrote:
> Thanks Larry.  Version Updated.  1.5.24 is correct.
> 
> You WAG wrong however.  Once the Volume has been formated in a native 
> Cygwin window I can format successfully via SSH and all output is 
> displayed.
> 
> With a newly created tiny volume the hang last in excess of an hour and 
> should complete in second.
> 
> -srp
> 

Ok.  I have a couple of Virtual Machines setup here for testing purposes 
and such so I setup a cygwin install on the XP one (snapshot before hand 
so it can revert back clean) and installed a base cygwin setup with 
openssh.  Then I installed the server and set it up as a service.  I 
also turned off the firewall on it (no one can access it outside of the 
network anyways).  I did not do anything special but it has 2 virtual 
hard drives to it.  A 1 GB one was added to the virtual machine and I 
created one unformatted partition that did not have any particular 
partition type setup.  Therefore it just showed up as RAW for now.  I 
then had to format it but I tried this via SSH.

It got stuck right after the line that shows "Proceed with Format 
(Y/N)?" same as the OP.  The same command worked fine once I formatted 
the partition locally via Disk Management.  This does not appear to be a 
WAG (lack of tty support) issue though as this partition formats quickly 
(under 10 seconds) when done locally but I waited at least a minute for 
it to complete without success.  Please note that formatting using the 
format command locally wasn't sufficient.  It had to be done via Disk 
Management for some reason.  Both quick formats and regular formats got 
stuck.  Format.com is listed in the processes during this with zero 
activity and no disk activity is being reported by the Virtual Machine. 
  Last but not least once it is formatted via Disk Management it works 
fine via a SSH session with all output coming back on the tty.

My own cygcheck.out is attached here.

Operating System: Windows XP SP2 (all updates installed)
Cygwin Version: 1.5.24 (latest)
Stock install with only openssh (+ dependencies) and nano installed

Any tests you want me to do I am more than willing to.  The environment 
is there to test out scenarios.

Robert Pendell
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