[0.9.13]Dynamic drive configuration using HAL?

[Uwe Bonnes]

Hallo,

I don't find any explanation or usage hints on wine-devel.

Thanks

[Mike Hearn]

On Fri, 12 May 2006 10:53:03 +0200, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> I don't find any explanation or usage hints on wine-devel.

My guess from reading the code is that whilst Wine is running, any HAL
hotplug events will be magically handled correctly. For instance, run
Notepad, look at the file open dialog box. Close it, plug in a USB key,
and do File->Open again. You should see a drive letter corresponding to
the key.

thanks -mike

[Alexandre Julliard]

Mike Hearn  writes:
> On Fri, 12 May 2006 10:53:03 +0200, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> > I don't find any explanation or usage hints on wine-devel.
>
> My guess from reading the code is that whilst Wine is running, any HAL
> hotplug events will be magically handled correctly. For instance, run
> Notepad, look at the file open dialog box. Close it, plug in a USB key,
> and do File->Open again. You should see a drive letter corresponding to
> the key.

Yes, it's all magic. If you run winefile you should even see the new
drives appear and disappear as the devices are mounted/unmounted. Note
that it requires pretty recent versions of the kernel and of the HAL
libraries. There are a lot of broken setups out there, so if it
doesn't work for you it's not my fault ;-)