cannot locate cdrom

finewine · Post by **finewine** » Sat May 10, 2008 10:09 am

wine-1.0-rc1
slackware 12.0
kernel 2.6.24.3

Im trying to run a cd from the windows 3.1 to '95 era. Its a Ford factory service manual disk for pulling up automotive diagnostics/schematics etc. The disk installed without a problem using wine /path/to/cdrom/install.exe . I can also run the locally installed executable file without a problem once again using wine /path/to/local.exe . The problem is that the program requires a callback to the cdrom drive either to load the files on the fly or for protection. Every time I actually try to load one of the schematics/pages the program just says:

Please Insert volume 1995 Truck CD-ROM - Revision 11.0

with the usual ok/cancel/help buttons. Ive tried manually creating the cdrom device in winecfg and also using the autodetect, both with no luck. I also tried manually entering the volume label
exactly as the dialog box requested it with no luck. To clarify, this program does seem to run fine and it does load, but in order to load any of the documentation pages it calls back to the cdrom at which point I am stuck.

I can also browse the cdrom drive from within winecfg without problems and it is set to cd-rom type. Ive tried using WinME or Winxp with same results. And the program does run fine from my windows xp system which is dual booted on the same box

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me@here:~/.wine% ls -al dosdevices 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 me users   10 2008-05-09 19:14 c: -> ../drive_c/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 me users    8 2008-05-10 07:54 d: -> /kompakt/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 me users    8 2008-05-09 19:14 d:: -> /dev/hdc

Would really appreciate any help

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sat May 10, 2008 10:49 am

finewine wrote:

Im tryingn to run a cd from the windows 3.1 to '95 era. Its a Ford factory service manual disk for pulling up automotive diagnostics/schematics etc. The disk installed without a problem using wine /path/to/cdrom/install.exe . I can also run the locally installed executable file without a problem once again using wine /path/to/local.exe . The problem is that the program requires a callback to the cdrom drive either to load the files on the fly or for protection. Every time I actually try to load one of the schematics/pages the program just says:

Please Insert volume 1995 Truck CD-ROM - Revision 11.0

with the usual ok/cancel/help buttons. Ive tried manually creating the cdrom device in winecfg and also using the autodetect, both with no luck. I also tried manually entering the volume label
exactly as the dialog box requested it with no luck.

Did you create the drive as D: ? Most programs from that era expect the
drive to be at that location. Also be aware that Wine's support of
Windows 3.1 and Windows95 programs is very limited.

James McKenzie

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Sat May 10, 2008 11:05 am

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:09 AM, finewine <[email protected]> wrote:

Im tryingn to run a cd from the windows 3.1 to '95 era.
Its a Ford factory service manual disk for pulling up
automotive diagnostics/schematics etc. ...
The problem is that the program requires a callback to the
cdrom drive either to load the files on the fly or for protection.
Every time I actually try to load one of the schematics/pages
the program just says:
Please Insert volume 1995 Truck CD-ROM - Revision 11.0

Could be something like
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5186

A +file,+dos,+text log might help, or sending a copy of the
cd-rom to a wine developer.
- Dan