[Bug 10018] Adobe Photoshop CS2 can't activate

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10018





--- Comment #32 from Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net>  2007-11-30 06:00:56 ---
Hello,

the serial number is usually not enough, most tools collect model and firmware
revision from ATA_IDENTIFY_DEVICE too when generating unique id's.

Working around with any "needs root access" devices/tools trickery is just a
big waste of time... and waiting for any patches to appear in wine tree too
(needs some work, unlikely done in near future).

For the time being, just write a simple NT style kernel driver, which creates
"\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE<x>" and/or "\\.\<driveletter>:" device object and handles
the few required ioctls.
For the SMART case it would be SMART_GET_VERSION and SMART_RCV_DRIVE_DATA which
return/fill in required data.
Make it configurable by using registry when it comes to SERIAL NUMBER, MODEL
and other ID sector stuff.
Should be easy.

This should please "private security" concerns and allows licensing stuff
independent of any hardware changes.
Actually I like this approach because it defeats the activation id garbage and
expresses my reluctance to support software which tries to intrude into user's
privacy ;-)

Make this a separate "mini" project whatever, distribute .sys and .inf file to
install the driver (or just attach it to bugzilla, adding small howto).
Before running applications which require this disk ID stuff, start the driver
and you're done.
No wine patches needed.

Regards


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