Re: vfat Doesn't Work With Windows 2000

[Paul Furness <paul.furness@vil.ite.mee.com>]

I know this sounds obvious, but are you absolutely sure that the
diskettes work? Can you read them ok on a 2000 machine? Can you read any
other disks on your linux machine? Is it possible that the floopy drive
is not funcioning correctly?

You should be able to mount functioning Windows 2k diskettes using
either vfat or msdos - in the case of diskettes, they are functionally
equivalent.

I presume that the mount command you are using is something like:

mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

in which case the only other reason it wouldn't work would be because
vfat / msdos support is not compiled into your kernel.

Can you be more specific regarding the actual errors you are getting? Is
it that the disk won't mount, or is it that it mounts but then complains
it can't read it?

If the latter, it is almost certainly a fault with the drive or the
actual disk.

Paul.

On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 11:59, SoloCDM wrote:
> I have Linux Mandrake release 8.0 with Kernel 2.2.20-9.2mdk.
> The vfat isn't able to read any Windows 2000 diskettes.  What needs
> to be done to update vfat?
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