[Wine] program in Wine doesnt see SATA solid state drive

[John Drescher]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:49 PM, patch <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I have a 50 gig OCZ Vertex LE drive that needs a firmware update.
>
> When I run the Windows only flash program in wine it doesnt see the SATA ssd drive it needs to flash.
>
> I have booted off another hard disk.
>
> I need administrator privileges to see the drive so I config'd wine for win98.
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> I also tried to manually add the drive in wine config by adding the /media/xxxx path and also manually assigning Label and Serial.
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> the program is located at
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> http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/staff/tony/OCZ_SF_110/OCZ%20Vertex_Agility2_%20update%20tool%20fw%20110.zip
>
> please help as I refuse to use windows natively or in Vbox and I need to be able to upgrade firmware on this drive!
>

Neither wine nor virtual box should provide direct access to the hardware.

John