L. Rahyen wrote: > On Saturday October 27 2007 05:30, Németh Márton wrote: >> My question is that how complete is the ASPI implementation in wine? >> May the firmware update work under wine, or we are far from this state? > > Direct hardware access doesn't work on WINE. For example, you cannot record > CD or DVD using Windows software under WINE. However, you can record CD or > DVD using VMWare (it has free trial for 30 days - more than enough to update > firmware). VirtualBox or QEmu (both are free) maybe will work too but I never > tested them for that purpose. Actually, I never used VMWare for updating > firmware in SCSI/IDE/SATA device but I think this should work too - probably > as good as CD/DVD writing. Anyway, there is no harm to try this. You can > download VMWare at http://vmware.com . > Use of sophisticated virtual machines is the only way in your case. Another > alternative is to use DOS executables for update (many vendors have them as > an alternative) with FreeDOS but this will require reboot; and this is only > way if you havn't a copy of Windows CD/DVD (it is needed for virtual > machine). Thank you for your response. I am afraid that FreeDOS is not suitable in this case as the firmware updater .exe requires Win32 API. I was thinking about ReactOS ( http://www.reactos.org/ ), but I haven't tried it, yet. Using VMWare, VirtualBox or QEmu could be a solution, thanks for the idea. Márton Németh _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
