From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Furness Subject: Re: vfat Doesn't Work With Windows 2000 Date: 04 Nov 2002 09:38:33 +0000 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1036402713.23486.14.camel@zebra.vil.ite.mee.com> References: <200211021159.gA2BxVD19078@cdm01.deedsmiscentral.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200211021159.gA2BxVD19078@cdm01.deedsmiscentral.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: deedsmis@aculink.net Cc: Linux-Administration 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? > > -- > Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing > list address and my email address in To: > > ********************************************************************* > Signed, > SoloCDM- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Paul Furness Systems Manager Steepness is an illusion caused by flat things leaning over.