[Wine] Raw USB mass storage device access

[James McKenzie]

Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 14:09 +0200, Gert van den Berg wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 13:48, Martin Gregorie <martin at gregorie.org> wrote:
>>     
>>>> (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.
>>>
>>>       
>> Possibly after some 'sudo chmod oga+w /dev/sda' kind of commands?
>>
>>     
> In my system (Fedora 12) both the disk and its partitions are owned by
> root and are in the disk group with ug+rw permissions, so the simplest
> solution may be to add the user, where wine is run, to the disk group.
>
> This applies to both the internal disk and a USB mass storage device. I
> just plugged a key-fob camera, which uses a micro-SD card to store
> images, into this laptop to check:
>
>   
Access to raw devices within Windows is very difficult without either 
special kernel level code or a specific driver.  Wine supports neither 
of these options.  However, I'm wondering if RAW access (like that 
preferred by Oracle) is possible from within Windows.  It may not be 
impossible to do this with Wine, but it will be very difficult.

James McKenzie