RE: vfat Doesn't Work With Windows 2000

RE: vfat Doesn't Work With Windows 2000

[Craig McDonald]

The fat filesystem is used for M$ floppies, not the fat32 filesystem (vfat
under linux).
Try using fat instead and see if that works.

Craig

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From: SoloCDM [mailto:deedsmis@aculink.net]
Sent: 02 November 2002 12:00
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Subject: vfat Doesn't Work With Windows 2000


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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Re: vfat Doesn't Work With Windows 2000

[SoloCDM]

Craig McDonald stated the following:
> 
> The fat filesystem is used for M$ floppies, not the fat32 filesystem
> (vfat under linux).  Try using fat instead and see if that works.

The following is part of the mount page:

(Note: fat is not a separate filesystem, but a common part of the
msdos, umsdos and
       vfat filesystems.)


I used both msdos and vfat.  The same CRC errors occurred, basically
those produced when files (not disks) are unreadable.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SoloCDM [mailto:deedsmis@aculink.net]
> 
> 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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Re: vfat Doesn't Work With Windows 2000

[james]

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 04:59:31AM -0700, 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?

Windows 2000 uses NTFS, not VFAT.

There is read-only NTFS support in the kernel, but it's safest if you avoid
any read/write NTFS access in Linux as I believe it has a habit of breaking 
things.

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Re: vfat Doesn't Work With Windows 2000

[Tarun Dua]

> 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?

Why don't you use mtools.
That will give you DOS(OS) like commands e.g. mcopy, mmd, etc  for use with
A:  :) .
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Re: vfat Doesn't Work With Windows 2000

[SoloCDM]

Tarun Dua stated the following:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Why don't you use mtools.  That will give you DOS(OS) like commands
> e.g. mcopy, mmd, etc for use with A: :) . Regards Tarun Dua
> http://www.tarundua.net All you wanted to know about Tarun Dua

Unless mount works properly, I will not be able to use those mtools.

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Re: vfat Doesn't Work With Windows 2000

[daniel lance herrick]

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, SoloCDM wrote:

> Tarun Dua stated the following:

> > Why don't you use mtools.  That will give you DOS(OS) like commands
> > e.g. mcopy, mmd, etc for use with A: :) . Regards Tarun Dua
> > http://www.tarundua.net All you wanted to know about Tarun Dua
>
> Unless mount works properly, I will not be able to use those mtools.

Not so. mdir, mdel, mcopy, etc. all work on
unmounted diskettes, run into things like "Device
Busy" when trying to reference mounted diskettes.

There are times when it is easier to mount the
diskette, but there are times when the mtools are
a simpler way to do what you want to do with a
diskette.

dan

Re: vfat Doesn't Work With Windows 2000

[Paul Furness]

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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