Martin Gregorie wrote: > - to overcome the defrag problem TrueCAD can also use a parallel port > dongle, which I've used with it for quite a while. Can applications > running under WINE access these things? If so are there any > restrictions? In particular, does CUPS block access to them? Wine can access parallel port as long as you have set correct permissions on /dev/lp0. That's your best option. Writing anything to the disk at specific sectors won't work at all or will have a danger of corrupting some data outside of Wine. ext3 (or whatever filesystem you are using) has nothing in common with fat other then storing files.
