wine users - Feb 2010 - Wine Doesn't Detect Extra Drives

Hello folks. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala)
I'm a former windows user, trying to use wine to continue using windows apps
I need. Unfortunately, I'm running into a snag.

My computer has three physical drives:

one 160 GB drive, divided into two 80GB partitions. With windows XP on one, and
ubuntu on the other

One 300 GB drive with a single 300GB partition on it. This drive contains almost
all of my programs, games, and apps

One 750 GB drive, split into two 40GB partitions (empty) and one 670 GB
partition, which holds most of my data.

I have my apps and data on entirely seperate drives from OSes, so that things
aren't getting lost when I reinstall. This seemed like a pretty logical
decision at the time.

Wine detects both partitions of the 160 gb drive, and all removable devices. USB
sticks, dvd-rw drive, etc. But the 300 and 750 drives are entirely undetected.
They're just...not there. I've tried adding them through autodetect in
the wine config, but they're not detected. I've also tried adding them
manually and browsing to the path, but wine only allows me to choose paths from
within the ubuntu partition on the first drive.

Ubuntu natively detects these drives and lets me access them just fine. I can
also run things from them through wine, by navigating to the directory. However,
I cannot run files in those directories by using links from the ubuntu desktop.
Any App I try to do that with gives me lots of errors about missing files, and
crashes. Also, whenever I successfully do run an app from one of those drives,
said apps are unable to save or load anything to/from them.

It's really going to be a lot of bother to rebuild my filesystem on the 160
drive, not to mention I can only fit about 16% of it on there. Is there any way
to get wine detecting these extra drives, as both windows and ubuntu can ?

Additional information:

I've found that if I create a link to a location on one of those two drives,
and put the link somewhere wine can see, I can use that link to reach the
directory, and load things from there. I can also browse every child of that
directory, but NOT any parent directories of it. Going up a level takes me back
to where the link is.

I guess I can just create links to the root of those drives as a workaround
then, this doesn't really solve the problem, but at least it's
manageable.


Also, all three drives are SATA

On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 09:13 -0600, WarKirby wrote:
> Hello folks. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala)
> I'm a former windows user, trying to use wine to continue using windows
apps I need. Unfortunately, I'm running into a snag.
> 
> My computer has three physical drives:
> 
> one 160 GB drive, divided into two 80GB partitions. With windows XP on
> one, and ubuntu on the other
> 
> One 300 GB drive with a single 300GB partition on it. This drive
> contains almost all of my programs, games, and apps
> 
> One 750 GB drive, split into two 40GB partitions (empty) and one 670
> GB partition, which holds most of my data.
> 
> I have my apps and data on entirely seperate drives from OSes, so that
> things aren't getting lost when I reinstall. This seemed like a pretty
> logical decision at the time.
> 
That's a reasonable approach: I do the same myself, though only with
partitions on one disk, for exactly the same reasons.

I have all logins in one partition, mounted as /home. It also contains a
'local', which contains all my locally developed programs and scripts,
and a 'java' directory, which contains my Sun Java installation and 3rd
party jar files. These are linked like this:

'ln -s /home/local local' in /usr
'ln -s /home/java java'   in /usr

IOW, /usr/local/bin finds my own programs and /usr/java/sdk finds the
current Java version because /home/java contains a 'jdk' symlink
pointing to the latest download: 'ln -s jdk1.6.0_17 jdk'


How are you mounting the partitions on the 300GB and 750GB drives? 
By that I mean where are you mounting them in the Linux filing system?

Changing their mount point might make them more accessible, e.g.:

- mounting them on directories inside your usual login.
  This would make them more accessible to Wine apps, but also
  wouldn't do anything you can't also do with symbolic links.

- mounting them on directories in /home and setting them up as login
  home directories. This would be my choice, but then I tend to use
  different logins to keep unrelated data separate, e.g. I use separate
  directories for program development, word processing, web pages,
  Wine apps, etc.

 
Martin

I normally mount the drives through the places menu, or disk utility. No option
is presented to choose a mount point, but looking, they appear to be on the
default /media

I am unsure of how to change this. Can you advise ?

Thunderbird wrote:
> In winecfg you need to set the drives up but really don't use Wine in
combination with Windows partitions, you can easily mess up your Windows
installation, break programs and also mess up Wine.
Only if you set a Windows disk as C:. Mounting under D, E etc. isn't usually
as bad as you would describe it.

>  Most programs don't work from a Windows partition due to missing
registry keys and dlls.
Mostly the commercial ones. A lot of other apps, especially ones not requiring
any sort of registration or activation, will usually just work fine over the
board. It's a case-by-case basis, really.