2000-01-29 22:11:47 +01:00
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Drive labels and serial numbers with wine
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Until now, your only possibility of specifying drive volume labels
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and serial numbers was to set them manually in the wine config file.
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By now, wine can read them directly from the device as well. This may be
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useful for many Win 9x games or for setup programs distributed on CD-ROMs
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that check for volume label.
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WHAT'S SUPPORTED ?
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* FAT systems (types 'hd' and 'floppy'): reads labels and serial num's.
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* Iso9660 ('cdrom'): reads labels only.
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HOW TO SET UP ?
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Reading labels and serial numbers just works automagically if
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you specify a 'Device=' line in the [Drive X] section in your wine.conf.
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Note that the device has to exist and must be accessible if you do this,
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though.
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If you don't do that, then you should give fixed 'Label=' or 'Serial=' entries
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in wine.conf, as Wine returns these entries instead if no device is given.
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If they don't exist, then Wine will return default values (label "Drive X"
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and serial 12345678).
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Now a seldom needed one:
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If you want to give a 'Device=' entry *only* for drive raw sector accesses, but
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not for reading the volume info from the device (i.e. you want a *fixed*,
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preconfigured label), you need to specify 'ReadVolInfo=0' to tell Wine to skip
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the volume reading.
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EXAMPLES
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*** Simple example of cdrom and floppy; labels will be read from the device on
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both cdrom and floppy; serial numbers on floppy only:
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[Drive A]
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Path=/mnt/floppy
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Type=floppy
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Device=/dev/fd0
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Filesystem=msdos
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[Drive R]
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Path=/mnt/cdrom
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Type=cdrom
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Device=/dev/hda1
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Filesystem=win95
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*** CD-ROM. We want to override the label:
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[Drive J]
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Path=/mnt/cdrom
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Type=cdrom
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Label=X234GCDSE
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; note that the device isn't really needed here as we have a fixed label
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Device=/dev/cdrom
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Filesystem=msdos
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TODO / OPEN ISSUES
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- The cdrom label can be read only if the data track of the disk resides in
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the first track and the cdrom is iso9660.
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- Better checking for FAT superblock (it now check's only one byte).
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- Support for labels/serial num's WRITING.
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- Can the label be longer than 11 chars? (iso9660 has 32 chars).
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- What about reading ext2 volume label? ....
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Petr Tomasek changes by: Andreas Mohr
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<tomasek@etf.cuni.cz> <a.mohr@mailto.de>
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Nov 14 1999 Jan 25 2000
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