Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] "No disk" bug others have already solved?

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From: "John Woodward" <nekote@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:19:16 -0500
Hello,
 
Fantastic software - Ethereal !!!!
 
Odd bug that seems to have tripped up numerous other software.
In my case, it reffered to: \Device\Harddisk2\DR4
 
USB / Flash / camera "removeable hard drives".
 
According to:
"There is no disk in drive" error message
"There is no disk in drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk5\DR15."
 
I believe I have found the reason for this error now. I let AG 1.82 ask for the name of the device for devices that reported itself as DRIVE_REMOVABLE. I had heard that a few USB drives could report itself to be of that unit type so in an attempt to improve the USB drive support I added that code.
 
 
ethereal.exe complained it couldn't find a (removeable?) USB? disk .
Choices include "Continue", which brought up a second similar (or was it identical?) message.
Continuing from there, all is well and works, WONDERFULLY !!!
 
I had Googled for "\Device\Harddisk2\DR4" and discovered similar issues for Quick Time and Audio Grabber, to name two.
 
 
Somehow checking removeable USB drives in a way that causes this System Event ID 26?
Application popup: ethereal.exe - No Disk : There is no disk in the drive.  Please insert a disk into \Device\Harddisk2\DR4
 
 
Hope this helps.
Didn't find a better way to communicate this oddity or it's apparent solution.
 
Best Regards,
John