CDRoms & SCSI

Robert Lunnon bobl at optushome.com.au
Mon Mar 22 03:09:44 CST 2004


On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 08:01 pm, Eric Pouech wrote:
> Robert Lunnon a écrit :
> > Well you can ignore my last message, from the source it's pretty obvious
> > why it doesn't work. Linuxisms !
> >
> > At the very least it should be possible to declare a scsi device in the
> > config file and have it set up, IE one could probe each disk device
> > declared for scsi capability.
> > Possibly this should be the only behaviour since this would allow the
> > user/administrator  to limit wine to only particular scsi devices rather
> > than give it open slather over everything.
>
> at the end of (underway) filesystem reorg, you'll have to declare the
> unix device attached to a windows device
> so, we'll have less linux magic in cdrom.c. However, we will still need
> to populate the registry with the known cdroms.
> this could be done either at device installation time (in win32 sense)
> or at boot time (by parsing for example the unix dev name, where you
> would get all relevant info (lun...))
> A+

This seems more reasonable. Actually the linuxisms in cdrom.c are just the 
expected ones to do with cdrom ioctls.  IMO it would be better to use a good 
widely supported  unix shared library like libdvd for this stuff.  



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