Wine not releasing CDROM

[lawson_whitney at juno.com]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Oliver Sampson wrote:

> Howdy,
> I'm seeing a strange behavior and I thought I'd let the Devel
> community know about it:
>
> While using Agent v1.8, and while having a CD in my CD tray (although
> unmounted!), if I start agent under wine, I'm able to open and close
> my CD tray.  However, if I try to use the attachment window to attach
> something, the CD-ROM drive spins up, and I'm unable to open it.  Even
> if I attach nothing, the CD-ROM drive is claimed by wine so that I
> can't eject the Drive.  Once I exit agent, the drive is released so
> that I can open the drive.  Note that the CD-ROM was never mounted.
> Even a check during the blocked period shows no mounted device, even
> though the "eject' command says "device busy."
>
> Interestingly, when I just tried this again for this email, I noticed
> the following output messages (It seems that there are some floppy
> drive assumptions, also.)

If you don't want Wine to attempt raw device access, don't give it a
"Device" = in the [Drive X] entry, I think.  Your average Windows app is
inquisitive and tries to look at all drives that have defined devices.
>
> Oliver
>
> ---output----
> err:dosfs:DRIVE_ReadSuperblock Couldn't open device '/dev/fd0' for
> drive A: ! (no permission)
> err:dosfs:DRIVE_ReadSuperblock Can't read drive volume info ! Either
> pre-set it or make sure the device to read it from is accessible !
> Perhaps you have not properly edited or created your Wine
> configuration file.
> This is (supposed to be) '/home/olsam/.wine/config'

;; MS-DOS drives configuration
;;
;; Each section has the following format:
;; [Drive X]
....
;; "Device"="/dev/xx" (only if you want to allow raw device access)

Lawson

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