[Bug 24279] starting a wine application spins up external hard drive

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24279

--- Comment #3 from Thomas Spear <Speeddymon at gmail.com> 2010-09-06 18:32:20 CDT ---
Leighman, I was using the Wordpad scenario as an example. Can you check in
winecfg if your external drive is setup to be listed as a certain drive letter?

The reason I ask is that if you have that external drive set as such, then
assuming I am correct in how wine works, it is looking for the drive every time
it starts up, for the sake of assigning a drive letter to the drive. Kind of
like a hardware probe when Windows starts for loading the drivers for said
drive. If you were to remove the external drive from winecfg's drive setup
altogether, or maybe make /mnt the drive letter instead; I have a feeling that
wine would no longer probe the directory that drive is mounted at, and
therefore no longer cause it to spin up.

Of course that is all just assumption based on what little I know of how wine
looks for drives and initializes them as drive letters.

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