[Wine] For what reason the "official" Wine does not support USB ?

[Martin Gregorie]

On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 06:21 +0200, Gert van den Berg wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 05:28, Marc Chamberlin <marc at marcchamberlin.com> 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!!
> >
> That's a completely different issue.... Everyone thougfht this is
> about using USB drivers under Wine...
> 
How is your Passport drive formatted - ext2/3 or vfat?

The default for USB drives is vfat, i.e. FAT-32.

 
Martin