Marc Chamberlin <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Version 1.1.50_1.2rc7-1.1-i586 of Wine broke my ability to use the USB >port with a Western Digital Passport disk drive. That prevents me from >using the PortableApps tools under Wine on Linux. It also caused file >corruption on my Passport drive and required a significant amount of >effort for me to recover. So DO NOT use this version with USB disk drives!! > This has got to be a Linux issue. I use a Passport drive on my Mac without issue. Can you look at what Linux does with the drive. Also, and as far as I know, there is no security software for Linux. If you enabled the security features of the drive in Windows, the drive should be invisible to Linux. >Sure would have been nice if a README or Release Notes had been included >with my distro's package (openSuSE11.2) giving me a heads up on this USB >issue, especially since it is apparently a known issue to the developers! > Known issue to which developers? Maybe OpenSUSE, but certainly not Wine's as you are the first person to describe this problem. Again, a Linux issue is not a Wine issue. >I downgraded Wine back to version 1.1.28-2.3-i586 which does work, but I >am back to living with some font problems in Thunderbird that I was >hoping the upgrade would fix.. Guess I will live with that for awhile >longer... That is a long way back (.50 versus .28). Do you know when this actually 'broke'? A regression test is in order. However, I normally would recommend a backup, but these external devices are usually purposed for this. James McKenzie
