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

[Marc Chamberlin]

  On 7/15/2010 4:56 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> 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
>
>
Martin -  My Passport drive is formatted for FAT-32
     Marc..