non-disk scsi device wine passthrough / PASCO Science Workshop

[Peter Kovac]

Greetings~

    I have a somewhat strange problem.  I have a PASCO Science Workshop 
750 interface box which connect via SCSI to an Adaptec (2906) SCSI 
card.  The device is basically an interface to various electronic 
measuring tools: motion sensors, light sensors, etc.  It comes with a 
piece of software called DataStudio which I have installed and running 
in Wine, seemingly without a hitch.  The problem is, I seem to be unable 
to see the device from within the wine environment -- or at least, I 
can't make DataStudio see it.

    The card is set up fine in Linux (tried SuSE 9.1 - kernel 2.6 - and 
Knoppix - kernel 2.4) and the PASCO devices shows up properly in 
/proc/scsi/scsi.  I installed the sg driver and set a scsi entry in my 
.wine/config file ([scsi c0t2d0] "device /dev/sg0") and still no luck.

    So, the question is, is it possible to configure linux/wine to allow 
a non-disk scsi device to be seen by an application running in wine?  It 
would be great not to have to revert back to windows.  :-(  Has anyone 
else tried running DataStudio / PASCO equipment in wine with any 
success?  Completely impossible?  Any guidance would be appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Peter Kovac
    kovac at gwu.edu