[Wine] Re: For what reason the "official" Wine does not suppo

[dimesio]

Marc Chamberlin 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!!
> 
> 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!
> 
> 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...
> 
> Marc..

Please run a regression test and file a bug.  http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

I don't know where you got the idea that this was a "known issue." AFAIK, you're the first person to report it.