Re: mountmgr.sys: For loop-mounted devices, use the backing file

[Alexandre Julliard]

Alexandre Goujon  writes:
> As part of their copy protection, some games use some ioctl's to check some physical attributes.
> Unfortunately, when using the loop device, some ioctl fail (like IOCTL_SCSI_GET_ADDRESS).
> A simple fix is to use /path/to/the/file.ISO instead of /dev/loopX.

Several places depend on this being a device. Besides, failing to get
the SCSI address of a loop mount seems like correct behavior to me.

mountmgr.sys: For loop-mounted devices, use the backing file

[GOUJON Alexandre]

On 08/21/2012 11:49 AM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Alexandre Goujon  writes:
> > As part of their copy protection, some games use some ioctl's to check some physical attributes.
> > Unfortunately, when using the loop device, some ioctl fail (like IOCTL_SCSI_GET_ADDRESS).
> > A simple fix is to use /path/to/the/file.ISO instead of /dev/loopX.
>
> Several places depend on this being a device. Besides, failing to get
> the SCSI address of a loop mount seems like correct behavior to me.

I originally wanted this patch in because my game was failing when I 
mounted the ISO of the disc via the loop device.
The game was calling GetVolumeInformation to check its serial and to do 
so, GetVolumeInformation has to look at some blocks at specific offsets.
But seeking (SetFilePointer) and reading (ReadFile) is not the same with 
the handle of the loop device and the ISO file.
So I had to manually change the dosdesices/X:: link to make it point 
from /dev/loop/X to /path/to/file.iso

Moreover, even if it is understandable that IOCTL_SCSI_GET_ADDRESS 
fails, others like IOCTL_DVD_READ_STRUCTURE, should return valid values, 
not ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED.

I thought mounting the ISO should be the same thing than inserting the 
disc in the drive.
But you seem to think that the current behaviour is the right one so in 
this case, simply ignore my patch.

mountmgr.sys: For loop-mounted devices, use the backing file

[Damjan Jovanovic]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:25 PM, GOUJON Alexandre  wrote:
> I thought mounting the ISO should be the same thing than inserting the disc
> in the drive.
> But you seem to think that the current behaviour is the right one so in this
> case, simply ignore my patch.

Try using cdemu to load that ISO into a virtual CDROM drive. There's
an Ubuntu PPA for it at https://launchpad.net/~cdemu/+archive/ppa

Damjan