https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33292
--- Comment #2 from sworddragon2@aol.com ---
is this problem still present? Please retest with recent Wine 1.7.x version, preferably Wine 1.7.33
The bug does still exist in Wine 1.7.33.
If your disk fails to be recognized this helps:
- start wineserver and services prior (notepad/whatever in different terminal)
- wait a bit until the drive/media completely stopped spinning before start
Don't run any CPU intensive processes in background that cause workload spikes during time measurement/calibration phase.
Doing this hasn't helped to solve this problem.
If it still fails many times with the "time limit" message there is not much that can be done here, unless you use less crappy original media (DVD) and better host hardware (certain disk drives/models are pretty crappy when it comes to validating copy protected media). Likely a WONTFIX.
On booting into Windows with the same system all works fine so it is not an issue with the media or the optical drive.