http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17938
--- Comment #10 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2009-04-05 16:50:38 --- (In reply to comment #7)
I have to ask - wouldn't it help if there was dropdown in wine's config allowing you to set your drive map as floppy, cd-rom, harddrive (fat), harddrive (fat32), harddrive (ntfs), harddrive (ext3) etc? At this stage you can only select "Local Hard drive" with no further specification of what harddrive it is. It seems strange to be able to specify a floppy file system or an ISO9660 filesystem but not having the ability to specify harddrive systems in a bit more detail.
That's what I'm proposing. Googling shows that some applications will fail if an NTFS file system is not available. The patch in question was put in place to satisfy one application.
I've sent an e-mail to wine-devel, so rather than get in an edit war over reopening this bug, I'll wait for comments there before reopening.