Martin Gregorie <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 07:34 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: >> This has got to be a Linux issue. I use a Passport drive on my Mac >> without issue. >> > >Both 'just work' and, because I'm not using vfat, the file permissions >don't get messed up and the file ownership isn't lost. > This is how it should be. Security software should also be 'transparent', but it isn't. Hopefully, WD will release a Linux version (if they have not already done so) of the software that locks their Passport drives. This is a well-known security problem with removable devices (USB flash/hard drives.) The do have software for the Mac that works with both Intel and PowerPC systems. Maybe a few Linux users 'prodding' them to produce a Linux version might be enough to get them to do so. However, the problem is not that Linux/UNIX/Wine does not support hard drives and flash drives, it is the 'other' USB devices, like pluggable phones (I had a Samsung one and I could NEVER acces the internal storage on it.) Things like this are keeping folks from fully adopting Linux/Wine as an alternative to Windows (not a replacement, we have a long way to go before that can be considered) and to see migrations from Windows to Linux. We do have folks working, independent of each other, to create USB solution(s). A concentrated effort could bring USB devices as another supported feature to Wine without the driver mess that Windows creates. Just a thought. James McKenzie > >Martin > > >
