On 10/5/06, Christoph Frick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
and its very unlikely, that a sane person would WINE allow writing to the MBR (or close to it). right?
OK... This discussion is veering off somewhat, but I believe it's heading in a fairly constructive direction. What we're talking about here is a class of applications that expect raw (or nearly-raw) disk access: - copy-protection that writes mysterious things to or near the MBR - various utility software (virus scanners, disk defragmenters, forensic tools, etc.) - other possibilities? Some of these tools - the forensic tools and copy-protected apps especially - would be nice if they worked on Wine. The two have different needs though... Presumably the forensic tools would be working on real drives - or copies of real drives. They need actual access. The copy-protection schemes do potentially dangerous things to actual drives - they need to be sandboxed in virtual drives that appear real. It sounds like a general framework for routing these kind of raw disk i/o would be useful... probably configurable by app would be most useful. thoughts?
