On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 19:02, Marc Chamberlin <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > James - Thanks for your replies... I have not had any USB issues either, > with using my Passport under Linux/Wine until I upgraded to rc7. And then I > started experience all sorts of problems... Typically, the drive would mount > OK as far as Linux was concerned, then I would use wine to launch to > PortableApps control application. That much would "appear" to work fine, but > then I would launch the PortableApps version of Thunderbird, Firefox or some > other app and soon discover that the Passport drive was no longer writable > and act as if it had been mounted somehow as a read-only device. (Not true, > it was originally mounted as read/write) That in turn, of course, lead to > these apps crashing and locking up the drive. I would have to kill the > processes at that point, and it was at this point I discovered that the > Passport file system had become corrupted. Dropping back to an earlier > version of wine has resolved this and my Passport is again working fine. > Therefore I must disagree with you as the evidence seems to strongly > indicate this is a wine issue and not a Linux one... Is the drive still actually writable under Linux directly? I have a 80GB (internal IDE) drive (with an ext3 partition) that sometimes stop being writeable (from native applications) until I reboot... (It seem to not happen since I upgraded to a new version of Ubuntu) The corruption also should not be possible to be done by Wine.. (nothing run as a non-root user should be able to corrupt a filesystem...) It might be that the way files are handled under Win changed between the two version that might trigger a bug elsewhere? Finding which change caused this is where a regression test would be handy... (For something that takes long to test like this issue apparently it is quite frustrating...) Gert
