I had a closer look at things: the Windows utility I'm running comes twofold as a .BAT (batch) and an .EXE (executable) file. I'm certainly no expert in Windows, but the .BAT file seems to be a simple text file which passes on instructions to the .EXE file. It looks like this:
Code:
@echo off
echo.
echo Windows dumper for Matshita DVD drives V1.01 by ala42, based on ben11's dump_matshita
echo.
:loop
set /p l="Enter the drive letter of the Matshita drive to backup the firmware: "
if "%l%" == "" goto :loop
echo You have selected the source drive %l%
echo.
set l=%l:~0,1%:
echo.
dump_matshita %l%
echo.
pause
So, noticing that my Mac won't even notice the optical drive without any media in it I suppose the first step is to insert a DVD or CD (with data on it) so I can locate a path with a name on it (e.g. /Volumes/Backup_2007/).
Having a path available, could I edit the above .BAT file for this specific CD/DVD media so the .EXE utility will see the drive?
If so, where do I insert it and what is the correct syntax?
EDIT: Much to my surprise I found out that Wineskin does indeed show a drive letter for all my drives including the optical drive (as long as a CD or DVD is inserted)! In Wineskin's "
Advanced" section there's a "
Tools" tab where I select "
Config utility (winecfg)", and when opened I press the "
Drives" tab which shows the optical drive as "D:". I thought this would help, but when I run the utility and enter the drive letter (I tried both "
D", "
D:", "
d" and "
d:") but got the following error message:
ERROR: failed to open device \\.\D:
So it looks like it still doesn't find the correct path.
