On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 14:09 +0200, Gert van den Berg wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 13:48, Martin Gregorie <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> (Probably no partitions that can be mounted though, since he itendes to access the > >> disk, not a filesystem on top if it?) > >> > > I'd be quite surprised if a program running in normal user space, i.e. > > not as root, can do that. > > > Possibly after some 'sudo chmod oga+w /dev/sda' kind of commands? > In my system (Fedora 12) both the disk and its partitions are owned by root and are in the disk group with ug+rw permissions, so the simplest solution may be to add the user, where wine is run, to the disk group. This applies to both the internal disk and a USB mass storage device. I just plugged a key-fob camera, which uses a micro-SD card to store images, into this laptop to check: Martin