[Wine] Raw USB mass storage device access

[Martin Gregorie]

On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 13:37 +0200, Gert van den Berg wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:46, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> > Reformat it as ext2?
> 
> I'm getting the idea he wants to do the equivalent of dd-type access
> from within Wine?
> 
I guess we'll find out when he replies.

> I'm also guessing that Linux have a device for the card?
>
AFAIK you can do anything to a USB storage device that you can to a
directly attached disk. I haven't tried to reformat an SD or CF card,
but I have successfully used fdisk to define a USB disk drive as a
single ext3 partition and fsck to format it as ext3.

> (Probably no partitions that can be mounted though, since he itendes to access the
> disk, not a filesystem on top if it?)
> 
I'd be quite surprised if a program running in normal user space, i.e.
not as root, can do that.


Martin